F.P. Report
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that the second phase Karachi Package-II and completion of the first phase would change the face of the city. The city which has turned to be a peaceful city would become a beautiful city of the country.
This he said while presiding over a meeting to review the progress of Karachi package here at the CM House on Wednesday.
The Chief Minister said that the completion of underpass at Submarine Chowrangi has taken long time. It must be completed at the earliest. On this the local government minister said that he had visited the underpass. Is one track would be open for traffic on November 15. PD Niaz Soomro assured the chief minister that the one track would be opened as Mr Shoro said vowed and with its opening work on the other one would be started.
Giving the progress of Bridge at Intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gizri Boulevard, Jam Khan said the project would cost Rs700 million. All its legal formalities have been completed. The chief minister directed the PD to start work by November 15. “I want to lay its foundation stone,” he said.
The PD, Niaz Soomro said that the technical evaluation of report has been hoisted on SPPRA Website and as per target the work would be started in November.
The other works to be started by November 2017 are construction of Rs650 million Road from Fuwara Chowk to Garden via Abdullah Haroon Road and back to Fuwara Chowk via Zaibunisa. Construction of Rs350 million road from Tank Chowk to Super Highway via Thado Nalla. Prequalification for the project has been completed. Reconstruction of Rs280 million Tipu Sultan Road from Shahrahe Fsail to Karsaz, Construction of RS1.5 billion bridge at Tipu Sultan and Khalid Bin Waleed Intersection at Shaheed-e-Millat Road, widening of Rs270 million reconstruction of stadium road from University road to Rashid Minhas. Construction of remodeling of 12000 Road Landhi Korangi for Rs1.5 billion . On the road two bridge would also be constructed. Improvement Plan for Rs240 million Roads at Cantt Railway station.
Meanwhile, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that his government has launched Rs26 billion road sector projects in Sindh under which 239 kilometer road is being constructed all over Sindh.
He was presiding over a meeting to review the progress of W&S department road sector projects and also discussed Asian Development Bank Sindh Provincial Road Improvement Project (SPRIP) under which 328 km road is being constructed. The meeting was attended by P&D Minister Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, Works & Services Minister Imdad Pitafi, Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem, Principal Secretary to CM Sohail Rajput, Secretary Works Aijaz Memon and concerned chief engineers.
Briefing the chief minister the works minister Imdad Pitafi said that highways department has launched 488 road schemes, including 396 on-going and 92 new. The roads have almost been completed.
Talking about new schemes, the secretary Works told the chief minister that four road sector schemes have been taken up by district government, 37 have been approved by DDWP and 28 have been cleared or approved by PDWP while 21 schemes would be discussed in PDWP in its next meeting.
Giving status of 41 schemes, the secretary said that Sakrand Sarhari (Shaheed Benazirabad) and Ruk-Lakhi (Shikarpur) have been completed last month. He said that nine schemes would be completed by the end of October and two in November and 28 in December, 2017.
Chairman P&D Mohammad Waseem briefed the chief minister about ADB SPRIPschemes. He said that the project cost is Rs22750 million in which ADB contributes 90.86 percent soft loan while the provincial government share 9.14 percent funds. He said that the project was approved in 2016 and now works have been started.
The chief minister was told that under the project 67 km Tando Mohammad Khann Badin road, 55 km Digri-Naukot road, 64 km Khyber-Sanghar via Tando Adam road, 63 km sanghar-Mirpurkhas via Sindhri road,36 km Sheranpur-Ratodero road, 44 km Thul-Kandhkot road have been started.
The chief minister directed chairman P&D to keep inspecting the roads so that their quality and speed of work could be achieved as per the target.
