ISLAMABAD - The Public Private Partnership Authority (PPPA) on Friday approved a bid document for the Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway enabling the National Highway Authority (NHA) to call bids for the 306-kilometre-long motorway project.
The said motorway is the only missing link of motorways connectivity from Peshawar to Karachi. At present, there are five fully operational motorways including Peshawar-Islamabad (M-1) Motorway, Islamabad-Pindi Bhatian (M2) Motorway, Faisalabad-Multan (M-4) Motorway, Multan-Sukkur (M-5) Motorway and Karachi-Hyderabad (M-9).
A meeting of PPPA, chaired by Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar in Islamabad approved the bid documents of this missing Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway project.
The project will now be floated in the market and the bidders shall be given adequate time to prepare their proposals.
Speaking on the occasion, Asad Umar said development of transportation corridors was critical to the present government’s development strategy. He said Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway would be a vital section of the North-South connectivity and would also have a far reaching social and economic impact.
This project has been proposed to be constructed on a Public Private Partnership basis at an approved construction cost of approximately 191 billion rupees. The Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway project is expected to be completed in thirty months following financial close.
The project envisaged construction of a 306-kilometre-long green-field six-lane access controlled motorway on build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis at a cost of Rs191 billion.
The project’s construction period is three years including six months financial close and concession period is 25 years.
The Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway design is proposed to be a high-speed toll road facility for efficient and safe transportation, which would start from Hyderabad at the end of the Karachi-Hyderabad motorway M-9 and terminate at Naro Canal—a start of the Sukkur-Multan motorway, M-5.
The project alignment passes through Jamshoro, Tando Adam, Hala, Shahdadpur, Nawabshah, Moro, Dadu, Naushehro Feroze, Mehrabpur, Rasoolpur, Larkana, Khairpur and Sukkur.
