ISLAMABAD - Chairman CPEC Authority Lt Gen (R) Asim Saleem Bajwa has said that 60 percent work on Basima-Khuzdar Road has been completed.
“South Balochistan roads in focus. Basima-Khuzdar Road Progress 60%. Hoshab-Awaran Road construction has started,” Asim Bajwa said in a tweet here yesterday.
He also said that they will improve Gwadar’s connectivity with North as per the PM’s vision of uplifting remote areas especially South Balochistan.
The Basima-Khuzdar Road project is located in District Khuzdar in Baluchistan province. The project is having 2-lane highway from Basima to Khuzdar with 110-km length and will cost Rs 19.19 billion. The road would link Khuzdar with N-85 to also serve Gwadar’s China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) route.
Similarly, in his tweet, the Chairman CPEC Authority said that construction work on Hoshab-Awaran Road is in progress. Gwadar Ratoder Road project (M-8) located in Baluchistan & Sindh provinces. The sections of M-8 from Gwadar to Hoshab and Ratoder to Khuzdar have been constructed. Now work on the construction of section from Hoshab-Awaran has started.
The Hoshab-Awaran project is an integral part of CPEC Central Alignment which connects Gwader Port with the Sindh province. Ground breaking ceremony of Hoshab-Awaran, Section of M-8, was executed by Prime Minister Imran Khan on November 13, 2020. The length of Hoshab-Awaran Project is 146 km and it will be completed in three years with an estimated cost of Rs19.857 billion.