Wrap it up: CM wants 40 road projects finished this fiscal year

KARACHI:

The Sindh works and services department has been directed to complete at least 40 road development projects, covering 881 kilometres and costing over Rs10 billion, by the end of the current fiscal year.

Presiding over a meeting at CM House on Monday, provincial chief minister Qaim Ali Shah asked the officials to construct roads in all the district and taluka headquarters. He also asked the finance minister to release funds to ensure that the projects could be wrapped up.



Briefing the CM, works and services secretary Syed Mumtaz Shah claimed that 314 schemes in the road sector will be completed by the end of the next financial year. "This will have an impressive impact on provincial development," he said, adding that 40 such projects were near completion.

These 40 schemes, he explained, involved renovation, widening, redesigning and construction of new roads in Sanghar, Shaheed Benazirabad, Dadu, Badin, Jamshoro, Mirpurkhas, Naushero Feroz, Shikarpur and Sukkur districts.

Meanwhile, works and services minister Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani disclosed that a $200 million mega-scheme will be launched with the help of the Asian Development Bank to construct 328km-long roads in Jacobabad, Kandhkot, Larkana, Sanghar, Mirpurkhas and Badin districts.

Bijarani asked the CM to double the department's allocation in order to allow the projects planned for next year to be completed. Upon this, the CM assured him that the decision to increase the funds will be made after giving due importance to the other sectors.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 19^th, 2015.