KARACHI: The federal government has eliminated all financial and technical barriers to constructing the 306-kilometre-long Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway, dubbed the “biggest initiative” in Prime Minister Imran Khan’s development package for Sindh announced last month.
A recent meeting of the Public-Private Partnership Authority, which Federal Minister for Planning, Growth chaired, and Special Initiatives Asad Umar, discussed several issues, including the Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway project, which was experiencing some delays in getting off the ground.
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According to sources, the project may be officially launched in the current month for further proceedings due to the new progress.
In a tweet, Mr Umer said, “We approved the viability gap fund and transaction structure for the Sukkur Hyderabad motorway project today in a chaired meeting of the public-private partnership authority.” This highway will be the largest project in the PM’s development package for Sindh.”
The 306-kilometre highway is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Rs446-billion Sindh development package.
According to a source familiar with the situation, the project called for constructing a 306-kilometre green-field six-lane access managed motorway on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis cost of Rs191 billion.
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