The Punjab government on Saturday approved spending of Rs4,504.857 million on the widening and improvement of the road from the Bahawalpur bypass to Chungi No 9 in Multan.
Five other development schemes, for road improvement and the building of a bridge over the Ravi, worth Rs8,210.924 million were also approved at the 31st meeting of the Provincial Development Working Party in 2012-13.
According to a Planning and Development Board spokesperson, the other projects approved were the dualisation of 33 kilometres of the Muridke-Narowal road in Narowal district at a cost of Rs1,474.300 million on; improvement of the same road in Sheikhupura district at a cost of Rs2,092.657 million; restoration of the road from Jhika Galli to Murree, which had been damaged due to landslides, at a cost of Rs1,005.883 million; the widening of 107.82 kilometres of road from Lahore to Jaranwala, Faisalabad, Jhang, Bhakkar, and Darya Khan Art in District Bhakkar at a cost of Rs1,193.796 million; and the construction of a bridge over the River Ravi at Qutab Shahana, Sahiwal district, at a cost of Rs2,444.288 million.
The meeting was presided over by Planning and Development Board Chairman Javaid Aslam. Planning and Development Secretary Arif Anwar Baloch and others attended the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 17th, 2013.