NHA to construct 8km-long patch of Ring Road project.

RAWALPINDI -- National Highway Authority (NHA) will construct an eight kilometer patch of the Ring Road project connecting China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) with Motorway (M-I) while rest of the road will be constructed on private-public partnership basis.

A senior official of divisional administration told Dawn that some changes had been made in the preliminary report of 64-km-long road project and it will be presented in Lahore Ring Road Authority's board meeting next week.

He said Commissioner retired Capt Mohammad Mehmood, who is project director, wanted to start the project as soon as possible and in this regard, he asked to complete the survey of the project site for land acquisition.

He said the government had allocated Rs4 billion for the land acquisition for the Ring Road project and it will be completed on loan worth $400 million from China's Asian Infrastructure Development Bank.

Changes have been made in preliminary report of the 64-km-long road project

He said that the consultant would present its report by May 15 and after this, the project would be sent to Punjab Planning and Development Board for final approval so the funds could be allocated in next fiscal 2020-21.

He said the land revenue department was working to complete the survey of the area to identify the government and private land to start the land acquisition and in this regard, the government would pay for the built-up properties and agriculture land.

However, he said that the commissioner had already directed to save the agriculture land in the project as the agriculture land in Rawalpindi, which, according to him, was already reducing and for the environment safety, it was necessary to save the...