KARACHI, Jan 6: Construction work to complete a remaining portion of the Jail Chowrangi flyover will resume as soon as the flats being constructed for the staff of the Karachi central prison are completed, said Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Administrator Mohammad Hussain Syed on Sunday.

During a visit to the flats site at the central prison, he said that over 95 flats were being constructed at a cost of over Rs175 million for the jail staff whose residences were in the way of the proposed loop of the flyover.

He said that after the completion of the flats the jail staff would be relocated and the work on the flyover loop would be started.

He said that the office of the inspector-general of prisons would also be affected due to the flyover and hence a new office was being constructed in Muslimabad. He said that the construction was being carried out following an agreement between the jail authorities and the KMC. He said the evacuation and subsequent demolition of structures coming in the way of the flyover loop would take around a month after which the construction work would begin.