Ijaz Kakakhel Slamabad
Senate Standing Committee on Communication met on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Senator Prince Ahmed Umer Ahmedzai and examined in detail progress of various on-going and completed projects, total revenue generated by the NHA and other administrative matters pertaining to NHA.
The committee also took briefing on the progress, repair and renewal of work on projects effected by the devastating floods last year and inquired about the preparedness of flood this year. The committee was informed that the NHA along with NESPAK is working on a complete novel structure and alignment of bridges affected by floods. The committee was apprised that the NESPAK will furnish the structural design and NHA will give a presentation to the committee in next meeting on realignment of Pinjra Bridge. The said project will take around 2 years to complete.
The committee was apprised that a complete hydrogel study of the NHA network is required to address floods in the country. It was also briefed that the NHA restored the roads affected in the flood. The officials from the Ministry of finance said that NHA has spent 2.4 billion rupees on repair/rehabilitation of the side roads out of NHA network in all provinces but not a single penny has been received from the government till date. It was further informed by the NHA officials that the Prime Minister of Pakistan has decided that expenditure incurred on roads in provinces,
