KARACHI: Work on two bus corridors to begin this year
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, May 6: The city government will start work on the construction of two of the four corridors for the Bus Rapid Transport System in the current year by utilising the first instalment of $200 million of the $800 million loan granted by the Asian Development Bank for Karachi Mega City Development Project.
In the projected plan, the first corridor is stretched between Surjani Town and Merewether Tower and the second between Orangi Town and Nazimabad, where it meets the Board Office section of the first corridor.
The other two corridors will later be linked with the Bus Rapid Transport System.
The third corridor connects Nagan Chowrangi with Sharea Faisal, where it meets the signal-free corridor whereas the fourth one links Safoora Goth Chowrangi and Numaish intersection via University Road.
The decision to start construction of the corridors was taken at a meeting held under the chairmanship of City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal. It was informed that the consultants of the project had already started their work on the project.
The nazim directed the departments concerned to provide their studies to the consultants in order to avoid any technical problem in the execution and completion of the project in a minimum possible time.
IT TOWER: An amount of Rs120 million would be spent on the training of 2,000 youth required to undertake the call seats job at the proposed IT Tower in Karachi.
This was stated by City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal during a briefing from the investor consortium on the IT Tower project here on Saturday..
DCO Javed Hanif, EDOs, representatives of consortium, besides the consultant and engineers of the city government, attended the briefing. The meeting gave approval to the design of the project.
The city nazim said that the consortium would provide Rs100 million while the remaining Rs20 million would be provided by the city government.
