Rs8b approved for road sector

LAHORE: Punjab Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) approved five schemes of the road sector at an estimated cost of Rs8,660.384 million.



These schemes were approved in the 14th meeting of PDWP of the current Fiscal Year 2017-18. The moot was presided over by Punjab Planning and Development (P&D) Chairman Muhammad Jahanzeb Khan. The approved development schemes included improvement of the 54.10 kilometres Pattoki-Kanganpur Road in Kasur district at a cost of Rs 1131.2 million, the dualisation of Kasur-Depalpur Carriageway section at a cost of Rs 5961.8 million, construction and improvement of road from Chowk 177 Murad to Chunan Wala via Chak No 204/M, 203/M, 205/M, 206/M, 207/M and 209/M. Several other areas will also a marked improvement.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 6^th, 2017.