{"id":36211,"date":"2017-12-11T13:06:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T08:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=36211"},"modified":"2017-12-11T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T08:06:35","slug":"development-of-road-network-in-balochistan-top-priority-of-nha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=36211","title":{"rendered":"Development of road network in Balochistan top priority of NHA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Dec 11 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0 Development of road infrastructure in Balochistan was top priority of National Highway Authority and out of six China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects in the province; four projects have already been executed.<\/p>\n<p>An official of the NHA told the media that the completed projects included 331 km Zhob-Quetta road,211 km Quetta-Sorab Highway), 449 km Sorab-Hoshab Highway and 149 km Hoshab-Gwadar were already completed successfully.<\/p>\n<p>Work on 81 km Zhob-Mughalkot was in full progress and hopefully this would be completed by December 2018, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the NHA has also completed three delayed projects in Balochistan proving connectivity to Gwadar Port while the fourth is near completion.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Rs 18.6 billion have been spent on the completion of 449 kilometers long Basima-Nag-Panjgoor-Hoshab Highway (N-85).<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, balance work of 193 km Gwadar-Hoshab section of Rattodero-Gwadar Motorway (M-8) has been completed at the cost of Rs 13 billion.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that work on Khuzdar-Rattodero section of M-8 has also been completed and it will become operational very soon.<\/p>\n<p>The government,he continued, has approved the Framework Agreement for construction of D.I.Khan \u2013 Zhob (N-50) and Khuzdar \u2013 Basima (N-30) highway projects and work on them would soon commence as the formal agreement between Pakistan and China comes into effect.<\/p>\n<p>The NHA official said that both the projects were included in China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) during the meeting of Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) held in Beijing in December 2016 which also recommended its financing.<\/p>\n<p>He said 210 km D.I.Khan \u2013 Zhob and 110 km Khuzdar-Basima would cost around Rs. 81 billion and Rs. 20 billion respectively. The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC) approved PC-1 for the projects in April 2017 and currently land acquisition process was in progress.<\/p>\n<p>CPEC\u2019s Joint Working Group on Transport has also approved two more projects for Balochistan including the dualization of Zhob-Kuchlac (Western Corridor) and construction of Naukundi-Mashkel-Panjgur road for inclusion in CPEC and recommended their financing. Zhob-Kuchlak (305 km) would cost around Rs. 20 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly,290 km Naukundi-Panjgur road would cost around Rs. 20 billion. Pre-feasibility study of the project is completed while detailed design is in progress. It will connect national highway N-40 with CPEC route N-85 and shorten the route by 772 km thus saving almost 10 hours travel time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Dec 11 (TNS):\u00a0 Development of road infrastructure in Balochistan was top priority of National Highway Authority and out of six China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects in the province; four projects have already been executed. An official of the NHA told the media that the completed projects included 331 km Zhob-Quetta road,211 km Quetta-Sorab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-36211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36213,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36211\/revisions\/36213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}