Observer Report Karachi
Sindh Minister for Works and Services Syed Zia Abbas Shah while directing to complete the all on-going projects at earliest, has said that the construc-tion of roads has a positive impact on the economy while the best infrastructure for transportation facili-ties will also reduce the fuel cost and the journey time.
Chairing a meeting held here on Sunday to re-view the on-going and new schemes of Highways sector of Works & Services Department, he directed the Chief Engineer Highways of Hyderabad and Sukkur region that use of international standard materials in the projects.
On the occasion Secretary Works & Services Department Imran Atta Soomro briefed about the schemes and said that the on-going schemes are divided into 3 categories.
The first category consist of schemes to which full allocation has been re-leased with amount of less than Rs. 50 million. There are 92 such schemes in this category out of which 23 schemes have been completed and rest of 69 schemes are scheduled to be completed by the end of this year.
He said, in second category, there are schemes where allocation is from Rs. 50 million to 100 mil-lion. There are 84 schemes in 2nd category and 05 schemes have been completed so far. 05 schemes are scheduled to be completed by October 2021, 23 schemes by December 2021 and 46 schemes by June 2022.
Secretary Imran Atta Soomro elaborated that in 3rd category there are 35 schemes on which 33% allocation has been released so far, out of which 12 schemes are to be completed by December 2021, and 21 schemes by June 2022. Moreover, Progress of 401 ‘New’ schemes was also reviewed.
