Hyderabad: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority (CPECA) Chairman General (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa has said that the land acquisition process for the Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway (M-6) is currently underway, a news source reported. In a Twitter notification on Sunday, Bajwa added that the project’s construction is expected to begin by the end of this year.
The CPECA chairman revealed that they have already obtained
the required approvals for the construction of M-6 Motorway. He said that the
motorway’s land acquisition process was underway and they expected to begin the
tendering process in a couple of months.
How long is the Sukkur-Hyderabad
Motorway?
Implemented under the National Highway Authority (NHA), the Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway (M-6) is 300 kilometres long. Also called the M-6 Motorway, it would start from Sukkur, pass through Khairpur, Naushehro Feroze, Nawab Shah, Matiari, Hala, and Jamshoro, and finally reach Hyderabad. The project will cost an estimated PKR 204.28 billion and take around 33 months to complete.
Bajwa highlighted that the project’s completion would allow
people to travel on the entire eastern CPEC route from Peshawar to Karachi. The
M-6 Motorway would also decrease the travel time between Sukkur and Hyderabad; cutting
it down by almost half of the existing travel time, he added.
The government has already announced that the M-6 Motorway project would be completed via the help of private sector on a Built-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis, Bajwa said.
