ISLAMABAD: The National Highway Authority (NHA) will begin work on the Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway (M-9) project soon.
An NHA official said the implementation of M-9 project was one of the top priorities of the authority and the Sindh government has been facilitating the NHA in administrative matters to ensure better and qualitative communication services to the people.
He said the 136-kilometre-long Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway was an important project not only for the commuters of both cities, but also for people of the entire country.
“Almost all the work except for 200 acres of land in Jamshoro district has been completed and hopefully construction will start this year,” he said.
To a question, he said at present Super Highway was in a dilapidated condition due to heavy traffic and expiry of its designed period.
He said for the repair and improvement of the highway, the NHA approved periodic maintenance schemes under the Annual Maintenance Plan (AMP) 2013-14 amounting to Rs305.28 million.
In the past few years, the NHA awarded the contract to two firms on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis but both failed to complete work according to conditions of the contract, hence their services were terminated.
The project will cost Rs6.3 billion and the scope of the work includes the expansion of the road from four to six lanes and provision of service areas.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 14th, 2014.
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Very good step.
I beg people to settle their differences. Please don't make things so bad that people actually think PPP is better.
I can happily live with PMLN and PTI but please no more PPP. They aren't even loyal to Sindh how can you expect them to be loyal to Pakistan.
Wasn't the contract to expand the highway to 6 lanes given to some Malaysian firm during the days of Zardari? What happened to that contract?
Are they upgrading the Super Highway or building a new road altogether? This news report is not very clear on this point.
hope it comes to bear fruit. The super highway is one of the most dangerous highways to drive. reckless bus drivers and truck drivers who think they are driving ferraris. on top of it people with big cars driving over the speed limit start blinking their head lights to move way as if the whole roads belongs to them
Well done NS. The whole country needs to be linked via motorway.
Another great work of PMLN Government... Nawaz Sharif is rightly called Sher Shah Suri of modern Pakistan. The Motorway in Pakistan was his brainchild and develops only during his tenure.