Karachi: The Sindh Environmental Protection Tribunal on Saturday authorized the provincial governments and other relevant authorities to resume development work on Malir Expressway, according to news published on April 16.
Read:People’s Bus Service gets new routes to Gulshan-e-Hadeed, Malir Cantt The tribunal has ordered a monitoring committee to oversee the project development and implement over two dozen conditions outlined by it. The verdict was announced by a three-member tribunal, headed by retired Justice Nisar Ahmed Shaikh. The tribunal disposed of the appeal challenging the issuance of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) by the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) for the Malir Expressway project. The appellants had submitted that SEPA issued EIA approval on April 6 last year to the Malir Expressway Ltd. in violation of the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Review of Initial Environmental Examination and Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations, 2014.
Read:Malir Expressway project to be completed in 30 months: SEPA In the EIA approval, the project was described as a 38.75-kilometre-long six-lane dual carriageway, which starts before Jam Sadiq Bridge on Korangi Road and continues along the right bank of Malir River, and ending on M-9 near DHA City, in the outskirts of Karachi.
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