PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Highways Council (KPHC) has formally approved the provincialisation of two more roads as well as annual maintenance plan of Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority (PKHA) for the year 2020-21.
The 19th meeting of KPHC was held here the other day with KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in the chair and attended by provincial minister for Environment, Ishtiaq Urmar, Special Assistant to CM on Local Government Kamran Bangash, Additional Chief Secretary Shakeel Qadir, Secretary Finance Atif Rehman, Secretary Communication & Works Ijaz Hussain Ansari, Principal Secretary to CM Shahab Ali Shah, PKHA MD and other concerned high ups.
The chief minister directed KPHC to ensure the implementation of annual maintenance plan in its letter and spirit as per the given timelines further directing not to carry out any new construction work under the maintenance plan.
The meeting was given a detailed presentation about the implementation status of the decisions taken in the last meeting of the council, achievements, details of the provincial roads, Development portfolio under the new ADP and budget of PKHA and other allied matters.
The meeting was informed that besides construction of new highways and roads, PKHA is entrusted with the task of maintenance/repair of 46 different provincial highways infrastructure with a total length of 3099 kilometers inclusive of the 383 kilometers long highways of merged areas.
The meeting approved provincialisation of 34 kilometers long Kalam-Mahodhand Road as (S-18) and 63 kilometers Abbottabad-Sherwan-Beer Road as (S-12-C).
Provincialisation of these roads will help boost both tourism and mining activities through the availability of better road infrastructures.
The meeting also approved budget of PKHA worth Rs. 4414 million for the financial year 2020-21.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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