Report by Engineering Post
The National Transport Master Plan for ensuring sustainable transport in the country was in the final stages of its consideration and approval at the appropriate highest level and many actions under the policy and the plan were already being adopted gradually and implemented .
Following the approval of the National Transport Policy 2018, as an overcharging/ guiding document for helping in planning and managing (maintaining/operating) the transport infrastructure in alignment with the Vision 2025 and realizing in a rather belated manner that the Pakistani transportation system needed modernization, the Master Plan was being final touches appropriately.
In the recent years the work on the transport infrastructure projects was carried out in the districts of the southern Punjab, southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and southern Balochistan based on equitable regional development of the poor districts especially in the transport sector. The road projects under Southern Balochistan Development Package connecting the Iranian border with the national network have already been approved and started.
The projects under the overall framework of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) have also been re-initiated and started in full swing and the negotiations with the Chinese side specially regarding the project of ML-1 (Mainline -1 for rehabilitation and renovation of railways main line from Karachi to Peshawar) and KCR (Karachi Circular Railway) were also in progress between the two sides at the appropriate level.
