Ring Road to stretch from Rawat to motorway.

RAWALPINDI -- The proposed Ring Road will be constructed from Radio Pakistan in Rawat to Islamabad Motorway with five interchanges at a total cost of Rs44 billion.

This was stated during a briefing to Commissioner retired Capt Mohammad Mehmood on Thursday.

The commissioner said the provincial government wanted to start the work on the 36.8 kilometre-long road in March. He said funds would be allocated after completion of PC-I.

The Ring Road project was initiated in 1991 by the Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) but due to frequent changes in governments funds could not be allocated.

The route of the road was changed twice. Initially, it was to be 75 kilometre long but in 2008 a fresh feasibility study was...