Mayor to perform groundbreaking of 13-km long intercity road.

HYDERABAD: Mayor of Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (HMC) Kashif Ali Shoro will perform the groundbreaking for the expansion of an over 13 kilometers long road from Autobahn to Halanaka via Ghangra Mori in Hyderabad on October 10.

The Mayor's spokesman G M Buriro informed here on Monday that under the project the Autobahn road's around six km stretch would be widened by eight feet from the existing 36 feet to 44 feet.

He added that the width of Shaikh Bhirkio road and canal road, which together are around seven km long, would be widened from the existing 24 feet to 36 feet.

According to him, the project's initially approved cost was Rs1.999 billion when the tender was floated in the newspapers in the month of April this year.

However, the budget for fiscal 2023-24 revised the project's estimated cost...