Meeting reviews progress on access roads to tourist destinations.

PESHAWAR -- A meeting to review progress on various projects of the roads sector including access roads to tourist destinations was held here on Friday with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan in the chair.

The meeting reviewed in detail progress so far made on different projects including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Roads Improvement Project, Integrated Tourism Development Project, Rural Roads Development Project and some important decisions were made to address the issues impeding physical progress on some of the projects.

Secretary Tourism Aamir Tareen, Secretary Environment and Forestry Abid Majeed, Secretary Communications and works Ijaz Ansari and other relevant senior officials attended the meeting.

The meeting was told that, Under the Provincial Roads Improvement Project, rehabilitation and construction of 214 kilometers 9 different roads is almost complete.

These roads include Shah Alam to Sardaryab road, Umerzai to Harichand road, Risalpur to Jehangira road, Khairabad to Nizampur road, Aadina to Yar Hussain road, Sang e Mar Mar eastern and western bypass roads, Maqsooda to Kohala road and Haripur- Hattar Taxila road.

It was further told that so far over Rs 14.4 billion had been spent on these projects.

It was added that the 34 km long Kalam-Mataltan-Mahodand road had also been included in the provincial roads project.

Besides, 65 percent civil work had been completed on dualization of...

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