NHA completes 4 projects on PPP basis in 5 years

Islamabad: National Highway Authority (NHA) Jawwad Rafique Malik said that success story of NHA during the last five years includes undertaking of four major projects on Public Private Partnership (PPP) at total of $3380 million, says a press release.

He was addressing an Investment Conference held under joint auspices of the Board of Investment (BoI) and Geo Group at a local hotel. A large number of foreign ambassadors, high ups from agriculture, industry, power, information technology and infrastructure sectors participated.

The chairman said, NHA has established an active cell for encouragement of private sector involvement in road building schemes, which is providing information under one window operation to the investors. As a result, NHA succeeded in undertaking four mega projects on PPP basis during the last five years which include 357 km modernisation of Lahore-Islamabad Motorway, conversion of existing super highway into 136 km Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway, construction of 89 Km Lahore-Sailkot motorway and 300 Km Hyderabad-Sukkur Motorway at a total cost of US$ 3380 million.