KARACHI: Federal Minister for Communication and Postal Services Murad Saeed said bids for Hyderabad-Sukkur motorway section have been received and soon Prime Minister Imran Khan would perform groundbreaking of the project, ARY News reported.
Addressing a press conference here in Karachi along with other PTI leader, Murad Saeed said that Hyderabad-Sukkur Motorway would be the first motorway initiated by PTI government“M6 motorway will be a gift for people of Sindh,” the federal minister added.
He went on to say that the PTI government was working on a number of highways and road development projects in Sindh to ensure better communication and transportation facilities for the people of Sindh.
An assessment of the status of Sindh restoration projects was conducted on Friday under the direction of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The prime minister approved expediting the completion of the Hyderabad-Sukkur motorway project during the meeting.
The Hyderabad-Sukkur project is part of the Sindh package that Prime Minister Imran Khan revealed in April of this year.
The Hyderabad-Sukkur motorway has been cleared by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) to be built at the revised PC-1 cost of Rs 191.471 billion.
The built-operate-transfer (BOT) principle would be used for the construction of the gated, 306-kilometer, 6-lane motorway.
It was disclosed during the ECNEC meeting, chaired by Minister of Finance Shaukat Tarin, that the project would be finished in thirty months.
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