Rs 500 billion to be spent on road projects

Over 500 billion rupees will be spent on 129 mega road projects including motorways, expressways and highways under the National Trade Corridor Programme.
The National Highway Authority (NHA) sources told that work on 63 projects costing over 150 billion rupees was in progress, while another 16 projects of over 60 billion rupees are in the final phase of completion, Radio Pakistan reported. Work on Faisalabad-Khanewal section of Motorway will be started soon. The project will be completed within four years at a cost of about 17 billion rupees.