Engineering Post Report
National Highway Authority (NHA) is in the process of launching six new projects on Built -Operate-Transfer (BOT) and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode across Pakistan at a total estimate cost of Rs 611292.550 million involving no foreign aid.
For these projects an allocation of Rs 41666.667 million has been made under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) of the Federal Government for financial year 2021-22.
New development projects so being launched include Construction of Additional Carriageway and Rehabilitation og Existing Carriageway from Balkasar (M-2) to Mianwali (118 km) Rs 55900 million; Construction of Kharian-Rawalpindi Motorway (118 km) Rs 71000 million; Dualization and Rehabilitation of Karachi-Quetta-Chaman Road (N-25) (460 km) Rs 149500 million; Dualization and Rehabilitation of Mianwali-Muzaffargarh (N-135) (286 km) Rs 130500 million ; Hyderabad-Sukkur Motorway (M-6) Rs 191000 million,and; Sialkot (Sambrial) –Kharian Motorway (69 km) Rs 43392.550 million.
According to the official sources, four out of six projects are to be constructed on Built-Operate -Transfer (BOT) mode. These are Hyderabad-Sukkur Motorway, Sialkot (Sambrial-Kharian Motorway, Dualization and Rehabilitation of Karachi-Quetta-Chaman Road and Dualization and Rehabilitation of Mianwali-Muzaffargarh.
Hyderabad-Sukkur Motorway project was approved on May 26, 2021 and Sialkot (Sambrial)-Kharian Motorway project on April 11,2021 by the Executive Committee of the National Eco0nomic Council (ECNEC), the sources added.
Apart from these six BOT/PPP mode projects, NHA was also launching 15 new development projects all over the country during current financial year, details of which will be given next month, please.
