Construction of the first ever flyover of the Punjab at Kahna Railway Crossing at a cost of Rs 3 billion, under Public Private Partnership mode on BOT basis, will serve as a trend setter for more project under such arrangement.
Project for construction of access road from Ferozepur Road to LDA city,widening /improvement and rehabilitation of Defence Road from LDA City Access Road to Hadyara Drain Bridge and widening of bridge over Hadyara Drain on Defence road were completed a at a total Cost of Rs 1.80 billion.
An sum of Rs 3.21 billion had been spent on improvement of road network project which included construction of a new 2.5 kilo-meters long road from Khayaban-e-Jinnah to Defence Road, construction of 1.4 kilo-meters long road from Defence Road to Butcher Kahna Distributory, construction of 2.6 kilo-meters long road from Lake City to Adda Plot along Butcher Kahna Distributory, widening / improvement and Rehabilitation of Defence Road having length of 4.8 kilo-meters and construction of Missing Links from Valencia Town to Engineers Town.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2017