KARACHI: Rs1.6 billion to be spent on 14 major roads
By Azizullah Sharif
KARACHI, April 15: The city government will shortly start reconstruction of 14 major roads of the city at an estimated cost of Rs1.60 billion. The reconstruction work is expected to begin in a couple of weeks. The tenders have already been opened while work orders would be issued in a fortnight, sources in the city government told Dawn on Wednesday.
In addition to these 14 roads, work on seven other roads and on an interchange at Habib Ibrahim Rahimtoola Road-Sharea Faisal intersection would commence soon.
With the construction of 28 major roads, not only the residents of various towns, such as Lyari, SITE, Baldia, North Karachi, North Nazimabad, Liaquatabad, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Korangi, Gadap, Gulberg, Jamshed Town, etc., would be benefiting, but flow of vehicular traffic on these roads would improve considerably, the sources said.
About the roads whose tenders were opened a couple of days back, they said reconstruction of nine, of the total 14 roads, would be carried out under the Tameer-i-Karachi Programme while the remaining five roads would be rehabilitated under the ADP.
Among the major roads to be reconstructed are: Road 5000, from Nagan Chowrangi to Surjani roundabout, and Shahrah-i-Pakistan, from Karimabad to Sohrab Goth, on which Rs 474 million and Rs278.218m, respectively, will be spent.
Besides, the CDGK has also plans reconstruction of Altaf Hussain Barelvi Road, from Old Sabzimandi to Bara Board via Liaquatabad Dakhana roundabout, at an estimated cost of Rs191.760m; dualization of Manghopir Road from Sarhad PSO petrol pump to Surjani Morr at a cost of Rs149.779m and rehabilitation and improvement of Garden Road-Manghopir Corridor from Kandawalla building to Barra Board via Love-Lane bridge at an estimated cost of Rs145m.
The other roads to be reconstructed under the TKP, along with their cost, include rehabilitation and improvement of Abul Hassan Isphani Road from University Road to Superhighway (Rs99m); improvement and dualization of 13-D Road from Hub River to culvert at N-4 stop via Rabi cinema along with police training centre, Baldia Town (Rs83.815m); improvement and reconstruction of Allama Rasheed Turabi Road from Landi Kotal roundabout to People’s Colony, North Nazimabad (Rs30.630m); rehabilitation and widening of road from Ibrahim Hyderi to Korangi Fish Harbour (Phase-II) (Rs19.985m); improvement and renovation of Fakir Muhammad Durra Khan Road from Mirza Adam Khan Road to Jamila Street, Lyari (Rs18.055m) and construction of road from Hashim Jokhio to Zakria Goth, Darsano Chano Union Council, Gadap Town(Rs9.390m).
The other road to be re-built under the ADP finance are: improvement and rehabilitation of road from Madinatul Hikmat roundabout to Superhighway (Rs100.766m); Shershah Road from Mirza Adam Khan Road to Estate Avenue signal via Shershah bridge (Rs46.284m) and reconstruction of road from Mir Ghari Orangi Town to Gulistan-i-Zia (Rs45.759m).
Giving details of the roads whose work orders had already been issued and their reconstruction and improvement work is likely to begin in a week or so, the sources said these roads include North Nazimabad’s Shahrah-i-Jehangir from 5-Star roundabout to Landi Kotal roundabout; link road from Lines Area’s Madina Road to Quaid’s mausoleum extension ground; carpeting of North Karachi’s Road 3000 from Road 2000 to 4000; improvement and rehabilitation of road, from SITE’s Frontier turning to Metroville Shell petrol pump; reconstruction of road from Nursery to Alif Laila cinema along police Complex in Baldia Town and reconstruction of 5-B Road and Ghousia Road in Baldia Town.
Asked about the pace of work on on-going schemes, the sources said as far as Jehangir Road, from Gurumandir to Tin Hatti traffic intersection, is concerned, it would be completed by the end of this month.
