Lahore, November 17, 2021 (PPI-OT):The four lanes 128-KM long Lilla-Jhelum road would connect GT Road with motorway while facilitating hundreds and thousands of daily commuters besides creating job opportunities for the locals. A sum of Rs. 15 billion would be spent on this project.
Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar was addressing the foundation stone laying ceremony of Lilla-Jhelum dual-way at the PM Office on Tuesday. He extended felicitations to the residents of Jhelum, PD Khan and Mandi Bahauddin over the project and pointed out that the Rs.33 billion Jalalpur irrigation project would usher in an era of development.
PM Imran Khan had laid the foundation stone of this project two years ago, he continued. 1.75 lakh acres of land in the Jhelum and Khushab districts would be irrigated by this project along with the provision of clean drinking water to 26 villages, the CM appended. He said the canal system of the Jalalpur irrigation project would be operationalized by June 2023 and added that 103 development schemes were being completed with Rs.11.23 billion to develop the Jhelum district on modern lines.
While giving details of the development vision of the government, the CM said that 13 PSDP road sector schemes were being started on the instructions of PM Imran Khan with an amount of Rs. 82.10 billion. Similarly, four major roads of 506-KM length will be constructed with ADB assistance in Punjab with an amount of Rs.130 billion, added Usman Buzdar.
The chief minister said historic 204-KM long Chichawatni, Rajana, Pir Mahal, Chowk Azam, Layyah and Taunsa roads’ construction was being started with the assistance of the Asian Development Bank. Similarly, construction of 107-KM long Jhang-Shorkot road would also be started soon, he added. Alongside, construction of 75-KM long Hasilpur to Bahawalnagar road would be started soon and construction of 150-KM long Depalpur, Pakpattan, Vehari road was also a part of this programme, he added.
The CM said 174 schemes of construction of 1206 KM-long roads, with an amount of 15 billion rupees, have been completed in the first phase of the Naya Pakistan Manzil-e-Asaan project. 154 schemes of construction and repair of 1076-KM long roads would be soon completed with Rs. 14.5 billion in the second phase of this programme, he continued.
Meanwhile, 1785 roads construction and repair schemes in the current ADP will also be completed with Rs.379.31 billion, he added. The CM regretted that no attention was paid to roads maintenance in the past and as a result, the condition of the one lakh kilometre long roads network was worsened. The incumbent government was going to start 13 projects in PPP mode, he said.
Work will be started on Multan-Vehari road, Sargodha-Faisalabad road while work was in progress speedily on the Sheikhupura-Gujranwala road project. Third-party validation of every ADP project will be done and schemes will be completed in time. The development journey will be continued and Punjab and other parts of the country would continue moving forward under the leadership of PM Imran Khan, the CM concluded.
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