About 38 pc progress achieved on Skardu-Jaglot Road widening project.

ISLAMABAD -- Work on improvement, upgradation and expansion of strategic road Skardu- Jaglot Road (S-1) is going on and so far about 38 per cent progress has been achieved.

An official of National Highway Authority told reporter on Wednesday that work on 167 km road which would cost Rs 31,000 million had started in July 2017. In the ongoing fiscal year, Public Sector Development

Programme , Rs 8000 million earmarked for the project had been

released, he said adding in the PSDP 2020-2021, Rs 9000 million had been allocated for the project.

The project had been assigned to Frontier Works Organization (FWO) which had built the initial track in 1984, he added. The...