HYDERABAD, March 16: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has said the local government plans to spend Rs1.2 billion on development of roads to provide better communication facilities to people and open new corridors for extension of the city.

Inspecting ongoing works of different roads in urban talukas of the district on Thursday, he said that out of this amount, road schemes up to the cost of Rs500 million had been submitted to the Sindh PDWP for approval and other schemes were being prepared by the district government.

He said that in addition to this plan, the district government was implementing 116 schemes of the road sector at a cost of Rs372.613 million.

The nazim said 40 development road schemes were being carried out in the City taluka at a cost of Rs125.446 million, 30 schemes at a cost of Rs103.588 million in the Latifabad taluka, 17 schemes at a cost of Rs90.704 million in the Qasimabad taluka and 29 schemes in the Hyderabad taluka (rural) at a cost of Rs52.875 million.

He said that besides construction of a flyover at the railway crossing in Latifabad-7, the district government was conducting a survey for constructing more flyovers, especially at roundabouts where traffic congestion was being experienced.

He said a scheme to protect and preserve heritage of Hyderabad had also been prepared under which historical buildings would not only be repaired and renovated but would also be declared heritage property.