PESHAWAR, Nov 16: The expansion work of the Sooray Pul interchange between Peshawar city and the cantonment area will be completed by March 2007. Around 70 per cent work on the project’s second phase had been completed and the remaining work would be completed till March 2007, said Mr Aminullah, director of the City Development Municipal Department, who is also in-charge of the project.

He said two sub-ways were made under the railway track.. The first phase was completed at a cost of Rs 70 million. The second phase consisted of construction of 500 meter long flyover, Jail road dualisation, hospital road improvement and Bacha Khan Chowk improvement. Work on the second phase, Mr Aminullah added, started in 2005 which would be completed in stipulated time. About the cost, he said, the estimated cost of the second phase was around Rs290 million. Whereas, he continued, the third phase consisting of construction of flyover from Jail Road to Charsadda Road would be carried out on need basis.

If further widening of the road was needed after completion of the second phase, it would be started in the third phase, he explained.—APP