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Sukkur-Multan section of KLM worth Rs 259.35 billion
OPPORTUNITIES | ADMIN | JULY 4, 2014 9:36 AM
Executive Committee of National Economic Council chaired by the Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has approved 12 projects worth Rs 440 billion, including Rs 259.353 billion for the construction of Sukkur-Multan section of Karachi-Lahore Motorway (KLM). An official said that some additional projects, which were not on the agenda, were also taken up by the meeting.
The ECNEC approved Rs 6.499 billion for the acquisition of land for establishment of free trade zone at Gwadar. The meeting was told that 2281 acres of land would be acquired for the establishment of a free trade zone at the Gwadar port; out of which 1627 acres of land would be acquired from private land owners. The Finance Minister directed that Planning Development and Reform Division should monitor physical progress as well as the results that these projects envisaged to achieve.
Dar said that submission of the PC-4 must be a regular exercise. The meeting was informed that 10 percent cost of Karachi-Lahore Motorway (KLM) Project”s construction of Sukkur-Multan section (387 km) would be provided through Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) and the rest of cost would come as credit financing through government of China. The project will be completed by 2017; its executing agency is NHA. The project envisages construction of a 387 km-long, six-lanes Sukkur-Multan section of 1148 km Karachi-Lahore Motorway, including the construction of bridges, interchanges, nullahs etc.
The ECNEC also approved the project for land acquisition, affected properties” compensation and relocation of utilities for construction of 959km Karachi-Lahore Motorway (KLM) with a rationalised cost of Rs 51 billion. The ECNEC approved the raising of Balochistan Constabulary project at a rationalized cost of Rs 5.146 billion with an FEC (Foreign Exchange Component) of Rs 200 million to assist police and district administration in maintenance of law and order in Balochistan by recruiting 6,000 additional personnel and merging 4,000 reserve police men to make 10,000-strong force of Balochistan constabulary.
9,700 projects completed by ERRA for Earthquake affectees
OPPORTUNITIES | ADMIN | JULY 7, 2014 7:23 AM
The Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) has so far completed 0.6 million houses and around 9,700 other projects to facilitate quake-hit communities of 2005 earthquake.
These were completed out of total 14,513 projects planned for rehabilitation of affected persons.
ERRA sources said currently over 3,100 projects are under various stages of construction whereas about 1700 projects have not yet been launched due to funds shortage. It has been decided that projects having progress of more than 50 percent should be assigned priority.
The sources said the funds allocated by government of Pakistan were Rs.98.24 billion of which Rs. 59.48 billion were spent by foreign donors and sponsors on their projects and added ERRA facilitated and monitored their completion.
Moreover, in Rural Housing Programme international consortium provided Rs. 76 billion for reconstruction of about 600,000 houses as the funds utilization was under their supervision.
The success of the Programme was recognized by United Nations through prestigious Sasakawa Award.
The sources said the ERRA is holding ISO certification for the transparency of functioning and systems.
KPK review Rs81bn NHA projects in progress
OPPORTUNITIES | ADMIN | JUNE 20, 2014 10:17 AM
Federal Minister for Communications Dr. Arbab Alamgir Khan Khalil has said that work on construction projects worth 81 billion rupees is going on under NHA in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
He said that the country’s economy depends much on the commercial traffic plying on these roads and 260.000 kilometers of the highways network is under the NHA.
He expressed these views in his introductory remarks during a high level meeting, chaired by Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Barrister Syed Masood Kausar, convened to review ongoing development projects under NHA in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The meeting was also attended by Chairman NHA Syed Muhammad Ali Gardezi, Additional Secretary Communications Amjad Nazeer, Provincial Secretary C&W Zahid Arif, concerned officials of NHA and representatives of the provincial government.
Arbab Alamgir Khan told the Governor KP that out of these important construction projects, the Luwari Tunnel is the most important which will be completed with a sum of Rs18 billion and 43 % of these projects have already been completed, whereas for the rest of the projects, the Prime Minister has approved Rs2 billion more.
The Minister said that the 32-km long Peshawar Northern Bypass will be completed with a sum of Rs19 billion and its first phase will be opened for traffic in April this year.
He also told that Khushalgarh Bridge will be completed with a cost of Rs1.5 billion and similarly, Mansehra-Burhan Expressway will cost a huge sum of 45 billion rupees; work on its first phase is ongoing and this is being constructed with the aid of Asian Development Bank.
He said that payment under land acquisition has already been made to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, however, we need another 500 million rupees for this project, he said.
The Federal Minister categorically denied the impression that any funds allocated for projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been shifted to any other province and said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been given its due share of funds under the Public Sector Development Program.
Arbab Alamgir Khan said that the Ministry of Communications is planning a number of other development projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
On this occasion, the Governor KP Barrister Syed Masood Kausar, while talking to the participants, appreciated the efforts of Arbab Alamgir Khan in ensuring completion of development projects in the country in general and in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in particular and said that Arbab Alamgir Khan is the only Minister who is making hectic efforts for completion of all these projects in time.
The Chairman told the Governor that the Peshawar-Torkham Highway is being constructed with a sum of 4 billion rupees. The Chairman told the Governor that works on 11 mega projects is going on in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Multan International Airport
OPPORTUNITIES | ADMIN | JULY 4, 2014 9:36 AM
Executive Committee of National Economic Council chaired by the Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has approved 12 projects worth Rs 440 billion, including Rs 259.353 billion for the construction of Sukkur-Multan section of Karachi-Lahore Motorway (KLM). An official said that some additional projects, which were not on the agenda, were also taken up by the meeting.
The ECNEC approved Rs 6.499 billion for the acquisition of land for establishment of free trade zone at Gwadar. The meeting was told that 2281 acres of land would be acquired for the establishment of a free trade zone at the Gwadar port; out of which 1627 acres of land would be acquired from private land owners. The Finance Minister directed that Planning Development and Reform Division should monitor physical progress as well as the results that these projects envisaged to achieve.
Dar said that submission of the PC-4 must be a regular exercise. The meeting was informed that 10 percent cost of Karachi-Lahore Motorway (KLM) Project”s construction of Sukkur-Multan section (387 km) would be provided through Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) and the rest of cost would come as credit financing through government of China. The project will be completed by 2017; its executing agency is NHA. The project envisages construction of a 387 km-long, six-lanes Sukkur-Multan section of 1148 km Karachi-Lahore Motorway, including the construction of bridges, interchanges, nullahs etc.
The ECNEC also approved the project for land acquisition, affected properties” compensation and relocation of utilities for construction of 959km Karachi-Lahore Motorway (KLM) with a rationalised cost of Rs 51 billion. The ECNEC approved the raising of Balochistan Constabulary project at a rationalized cost of Rs 5.146 billion with an FEC (Foreign Exchange Component) of Rs 200 million to assist police and district administration in maintenance of law and order in Balochistan by recruiting 6,000 additional personnel and merging 4,000 reserve police men to make 10,000-strong force of Balochistan constabulary.
9,700 projects completed by ERRA for Earthquake affectees
OPPORTUNITIES | ADMIN | JULY 7, 2014 7:23 AM
The Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) has so far completed 0.6 million houses and around 9,700 other projects to facilitate quake-hit communities of 2005 earthquake.
These were completed out of total 14,513 projects planned for rehabilitation of affected persons.
ERRA sources said currently over 3,100 projects are under various stages of construction whereas about 1700 projects have not yet been launched due to funds shortage. It has been decided that projects having progress of more than 50 percent should be assigned priority.
The sources said the funds allocated by government of Pakistan were Rs.98.24 billion of which Rs. 59.48 billion were spent by foreign donors and sponsors on their projects and added ERRA facilitated and monitored their completion.
Moreover, in Rural Housing Programme international consortium provided Rs. 76 billion for reconstruction of about 600,000 houses as the funds utilization was under their supervision.
The success of the Programme was recognized by United Nations through prestigious Sasakawa Award.
The sources said the ERRA is holding ISO certification for the transparency of functioning and systems.
KPK review Rs81bn NHA projects in progress
OPPORTUNITIES | ADMIN | JUNE 20, 2014 10:17 AM
Federal Minister for Communications Dr. Arbab Alamgir Khan Khalil has said that work on construction projects worth 81 billion rupees is going on under NHA in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
He said that the country’s economy depends much on the commercial traffic plying on these roads and 260.000 kilometers of the highways network is under the NHA.
He expressed these views in his introductory remarks during a high level meeting, chaired by Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Barrister Syed Masood Kausar, convened to review ongoing development projects under NHA in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The meeting was also attended by Chairman NHA Syed Muhammad Ali Gardezi, Additional Secretary Communications Amjad Nazeer, Provincial Secretary C&W Zahid Arif, concerned officials of NHA and representatives of the provincial government.
Arbab Alamgir Khan told the Governor KP that out of these important construction projects, the Luwari Tunnel is the most important which will be completed with a sum of Rs18 billion and 43 % of these projects have already been completed, whereas for the rest of the projects, the Prime Minister has approved Rs2 billion more.
The Minister said that the 32-km long Peshawar Northern Bypass will be completed with a sum of Rs19 billion and its first phase will be opened for traffic in April this year.
He also told that Khushalgarh Bridge will be completed with a cost of Rs1.5 billion and similarly, Mansehra-Burhan Expressway will cost a huge sum of 45 billion rupees; work on its first phase is ongoing and this is being constructed with the aid of Asian Development Bank.
He said that payment under land acquisition has already been made to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, however, we need another 500 million rupees for this project, he said.
The Federal Minister categorically denied the impression that any funds allocated for projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been shifted to any other province and said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been given its due share of funds under the Public Sector Development Program.
Arbab Alamgir Khan said that the Ministry of Communications is planning a number of other development projects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
On this occasion, the Governor KP Barrister Syed Masood Kausar, while talking to the participants, appreciated the efforts of Arbab Alamgir Khan in ensuring completion of development projects in the country in general and in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in particular and said that Arbab Alamgir Khan is the only Minister who is making hectic efforts for completion of all these projects in time.
The Chairman told the Governor that the Peshawar-Torkham Highway is being constructed with a sum of 4 billion rupees. The Chairman told the Governor that works on 11 mega projects is going on in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Multan International Airport
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