New infrastructure: CM inaugurates Thatta-Sujawal bridge
HYDERABAD: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah inaugurated on Friday a Rs2.9 billion Thatta-Sujjawal bridge, that besides joining a dual coastal districts will also offer a ride needs of a Thar spark project.
The four-lane overpass whose construction was finished in 19 months, according to a government, is an further to a over five-decade-old two-lane overpass between a dual districts that are divided by River Indus.
This is a first-ever overpass on Sindhu darya [River Indus] that has been assembled by a provincial supervision from a possess resources, pronounced Shah, adding that it is differently a pursuit of a sovereign government.
According to him, a coercion of a new bridge, as a comparison one had grown cracks, encouraged a provincial supervision to utilize a finances for a project.
Apart from sustenance of inter-district transport, a overpass will immensely assistance a Thar spark project, forked out Shah, adding that it was a large plea to ride complicated machine of coal-fired energy plants to a Thar spark margin [from Karachi pier to Tharparkar].
Shah appreciated a Thar Coal Authority, a executing group of a overpass and presented appreciation letters to a endangered officers and a contractors.
The dual districts were forged out from one district, Thatta, in 2012. “The [local] people and a [elected] member of both a districts lucky executive multiplication of Thatta and Sujawal, differently we would have joined them as they stay connected by a bridge,” pronounced Shah. He suggested a internal administration to use a aged overpass for light traffic, including motorcycles.
The CM also announced a construction of dual some-more bridges on River Indus, including one during Zulfikarabad and another during Kandhkot-Ghotki in top Sindh. He also pronounced that he will shortly establish another stream overpass during Jhirk- Mulakatyar.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 28th, 2017.
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