ISLAMABAD: During the past four years, the National Highway Authority has completed nearly fifty national highway projects at a cost of over Rs 80 billion and an amount of Rs 245 billion has been allocated to almost four dozen road projects having length of 2,985 km.
According to a source in the NHA, the ongoing road projects include improvement and extension of motorways/expressways and highways, Gwadar linkages and upgradation of Karakoram Highway (KKH) and a number of bridges, flyovers and interchanges creating thousands of direct and indirect jobs.
Great Trunk Road (N-5) is the major artery, linking the three provinces, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh, catering for the 65 per cent of goods transportation and passengers traffic and 80 per cent overall economic activities in the country.
He said that the improvement programme of GT road has been undertaken in collaboration with World Bank at cost of Rs 29.1 billion covering 866.45 kilometres.
He said that NHA carried out restoration work on war footing and repaired the roads damaged in 2010 floods. Floods in 2010 devastated the communication network throughout the country damaging roads, culverts, retraining walls, causeway and 738 km roads and 48 bridges were damaged, he added.
Moreover, he said the NHA has been building 12 major river bridges on the directive of the government out of which some projects, including Head Muhammadwala Bridge on the Chenab Tiver, Moosa Pak Shaheed (Tarapp) on the Sutlej River, Larkana-Khairpur Bridge on the Indus, and Thakot Bridge on the Indus have been completed.
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