KARACHI, July 7: Mumtaz Hamid, Adviser to chief minister, during his visit of to the Shahrah-i-Jahangir on Wednesday directed concerned officials to construct the road according to international standards and within stipulated time. He said he would be inspecting the road project, being constructed from Five Star Chowrangi to Landi Kotal Chowrangi in North Nazimabad, every month.

The adviser said traffic problems of the area would be resolved with the road’s construction.

Earlier, DO Talha told the adviser that the project that started on April 12, 2005 would be completed on April 11, 2006 at an estimated cost of Rs23.40 million.

Giving details of the project, he said two main roads 24-ft wide and two service roads 30-ft wide would be constructed.

He said there was only one 24-ft wide main road in the master plan, and its width could not be extended because a high power tension fibre passed from there, the shifting of which wasn’t possible to any other place.

He said that six-ft wide footpaths on both sides of the roads, and a green belt of 16- to 18-ft wide would be constructed with a duct for drainage, so that rainwater doesn’t accumulate there.

Giving reasons for delay in the road’s construction, the DO said it was due to the inefficiency of the KWSB that sewerage water was flowing on the road, and also that construction material of the Al-Habib Arcade was also lying there, creating hindrances in its timely construction.—PPI