Construction of Kandhkot-Ghotki bridge to begin soon, says Qaim

Karachi

The Sindh government has decided to construct another bridge over the Indus River to connect Ghotki and Kashmore Kandhkot districts and work on it will begin next month, said Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah.

The chief minister announced this while talking to a six-member Chinese delegation of Ranken Railway Construction Group Company Limited, led by Tang Jikai. Members of the delegation were Li Yang, Yao Lang, Yao Lan, Wang Jue, Wang Lei, Wang Changqi.

The Chinese delegation told the chief minister that they had expertise in building bullet trains, circular railways and construction of roads and bridges.

The chief minister told the delegation that the Sindh government had recently built two bridges over the Indus River, one connecting Thatta and Sujawal districts while another over the Jhirk-Mula Katiar was near completion.

“We are planning to build another bridge to connect Kashmore Kandhkot and Ghotki districts. It would be 1.5 kilometres long and would ease traffic flow between Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan while reducing their distance of 75 kilometres between Ghotki and Kandhkot," he said.

The chief minister said the construction would be carried out under Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode because it would have immense commercial transport. "I would like to invite you to participate in the bidding process that will begin in the third week of July," he said.    

On the occasion, the chief minister also told the delegation that Karachi needed a well-planned and state-of-the-art circular railway to provide efficient, effective and fast transport facilities to the residents.

Members of the delegation expressed their interest in construction of the circular railways and Kandhkot-Ghotki bridge on River Indus and they fixed a meeting with finance secretary Sohail Rajput, who also head the government’s Public-Private Partnership unit.