The Motorway: Meeting held to finalise plans to changing highway

HYDERABAD: The additional commissioner of Hyderabad division, Rasheed Ahmed Zardari, directed the deputy commissioners of Thatta and Jamshoro districts to remain in close coordination with the officers of National Highway Authority (NHA) and resolve all the problems in the execution of converting the four-lane Karachi-Hyderabad Super Highway into a six-lane motorway.

While presiding over a meeting on the matter, Zardari directed the land utilisation department to acquire the land according to the requirement and compensate the land owners as soon as possible.

According to the project director of NHA, Rasool Bux Mallah, the authority has signed an agreement with a Malaysian company, Benan Puri. He said that the estimated cost of the project was Rs18 million while Rs6 billion will be spent on buying the land.

The project will take about a year to complete.

Mallah said that 1,673 and 823 acres of land were allocated by the district administrations of Thatta and Jamshoro.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 17^th, 2012.