The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) on Thursday affirmed four significant street ventures worth Rs290 billion in Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
TheEcnec meeting chaired by Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh approved the development of the 306-kilometre-long Hyderabad-Sukkur Motor-route at an expense of Rs165.67bn. The venture to be finished on the Build-Operate-Transfer premise conceives and includes a six-path, get to the controlled roadway.
The motorway is proposed to be a fast expressway office for productive and safe transportation, which will begin from Hyderabad (End of Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway M-9) and end at Naro Canal (Start of Sukkur-Multan Motorway M-5).
It passes through Jam-shoro, Tando Adam, Hala, Shahdadpur, Nawabshah, Moro, Dadu, NaushahroFeroze, Mehrabpur, Rasool-pur, Larkana, Khairpur and Sukkur.
The task is now remembered for the open private association mode under which a private gathering will fund its development, work it for a characterized concession period and move it back to the National Highway Authority at no expense toward the finish of concession time of 25 years. The M-6 venture is assessed to take 33 months to finish.
Ecnec additionally affirmed the development of 47.55km Khyber Pass Economic Corridor venture at an expense of Rs77.9bn, development of 146km Hoshab-Awaran-Khuzdar Section of M-8 undertaking worth Rs26bn and land procurement for Swat Motorway Phase-II at an expense of Rs20bn.
The corridor venture comprises of two segments development of Peshawar-Torkham Motorway and link-road interfacing motorway to Badabher (N-55) meeting N-5 between Chamkani and Jhagra (55km) long. It visualizes the development of 47.55-kilometre-long, four-path wide, double carriageway fast access-controlled motorway from Peshawar to Torkham.
The Peshawar-Torkham Motorway is a piece of the Peshawar-Jalalabad-Kabul Motorway Project. The extent of work incorporates the development of extensions, trades, flyovers, trams, underpasses, box ducts, dairy cattle creep, street furniture, seepage works, and holding dividers alongside unified offices. The undertaking was conceived based on a credit program offered by the World Bank.
The Hoshab-Awaran-Khuzdar Section of M-8 Project imagines the development of 146km street from Hoshab to Awaran at an expense of Rs26bn. The street begins from Hoshab and crosses through QilaDarwesh, Ashal, Dandar, Sahar Kalat, Gorari, Laljan, Duddar, Razai, Nurdin, Madak, Malar, LabachDargo lastly ends at Awaran. The extent of works incorporates the movement of utilities and securing of 29,200 kanals of land for 100m of Right of Way.
The Swat Motorway Phase-II venture visualizes securing of 10,000 kanals of land for development of four-path motorway of 79.69km length from Chakdara to Fatehpur as Phase-II — augmentation of the Swat Motorway. The motorway is proposed as a rapid expressway office for effective and safe transportation. The Right of Way proposed for the motorway is 50m.
