The Punjab government has added 10 new commercial and residential zones in the Rawalpindi Ring Road Project Economic Corridor (RRPEC).
The government has released the plan of the Rawalpindi Ring Road project after approval on Tuesday.
A dry port equipped with modern facilities, a well-equipped hospital, and an international expo centre along with the establishment of fruit and vegetable markets, goods and public transport terminals, and cattle markets will be part of the project as per the released plan.
The public hearing of the Ring Road project would be carried out on October 19. In this regard, Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) Chairman Tariq Murtaza said that 65.6 kilometre (km) long Ring Road would have six lanes on each side like the motorway.
Along with it, the officer said that service roads would be constructed along the main road too while RDA would plant 0.15 million saplings on the entire route of the signal-free corridor.
Murtaza said that the project would have interchanges at eight different locations including Radio Pakistan, Rawat, Chak Beli, Adyala, Chakri, M2 Mor, Islamabad International Airport (IIA), and Sangjani while residential zones would be established along Sangjani, Adiala, Chakri and Chak Beli interchanges.
He said that the federal government has recently approved establishment of two new dry ports, one in Punjab and the other in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Of these one would be established near Rawat on the Ring Road while the other will be developed near Hakla Dam in Dera Ismail Khan.
The planned expo centre along Ring Road would be constructed near IIA. The hospital in the project will be built near Chak Beli Interchange whereas the amusement park would be constructed between Chakri and Morat interchanges.
PM Imran Khan and Punjab Chief Minister Usman Bazdar will lay the foundation of the mega project in December.
Land acquisition rates
The rates approved by the district price committee for acquiring land for the right of way under the first phase of the Rawalpindi Ring Road project have been sent to the Punjab Board of Revenue for approval.
Under the first phase, some 51 kilometres (km) land would be acquired from Radio Pakistan on GT Road to China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route.
The land acquisition for 14 km long road from Sangjani in the second phase would be started later.
After approval and issuing of notification, the objections would be summoned from the landowners within 15 days.
After the settlement process, the owners would be paid compensation through the land acquisition collector.
Further, some Rs6 billion have already been transferred to the account of the land acquisition.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 7th, 2020.
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