{"id":42204,"date":"2024-07-12T17:31:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=42204"},"modified":"2024-07-12T17:34:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T12:34:10","slug":"sialkot-rawalpindi-motorway-to-get-six-lanes-instead-of-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/sialkot-rawalpindi-motorway-to-get-six-lanes-instead-of-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt shares latest update on Sialkot-Rawalpindi motorway project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister of Privatisation and Investment Board and Communications Abdul Aleem Khan instructed the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/toll-tax-on-national-highways-motorways-increased-from-july-2024-details-inside\/\">National Highway Authority (NHA)<\/a> to review the Sialkot-Rawalpindi Motorway and upgrade it from four lanes to six.<\/p>\n<p>During a high-level meeting chaired by Minister Abdul Aleem Khan, it was decided to upgrade the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fog-causes-traffic-jams-on-motorways-in-some-areas-of-punjab-2\/\">Sialkot-Rawalpindi Motorway<\/a>\u00a0with long-term national needs rather than current demands alone.<\/p>\n<p>A high-level National Highway Authority (NHA) meeting discussed the pace of work reviewed on various projects of the NHA in Balochistan, Sindh, and Gilgit-Baltistan.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he directed the National Highway Authority to transform the Lahore-Sialkot Motorway into a barrier-free corridor. The meeting also discussed installing live surveillance cameras on all highways and construction projects so that this construction work can be monitored anywhere at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the federal minister directed the NHA to implement phase-wise construction of the Rs. 150 billion N25 highway in Baluchistan. He also instructed NHA to ensure third-party evaluation of repair projects of different roads so that the government funds are not wasted.<\/p>\n<p>He said that highways and motorways are our national assets so future needs should be kept in view in the context of a growing population. He further said that we have to give priority to the construction of such roads which can benefit the country economically, as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister of Privatisation and Investment Board and Communications Abdul Aleem Khan instructed the National Highway Authority (NHA) to review the Sialkot-Rawalpindi Motorway and upgrade it from four lanes to six. During a high-level meeting chaired by Minister Abdul Aleem Khan, it was decided to upgrade the Sialkot-Rawalpindi Motorway\u00a0with long-term national needs rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":42205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19640,19641],"class_list":["post-42204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-sialkot-rawalpindi-motorway","tag-six-lanes-sialkot-rawalpindi-motorway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42207,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42204\/revisions\/42207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}