The Punjab Provincial Development Working Party (PPDWP) has approved to release Rs 4 billion for construction of a bridge at Chak Nizam on River Jehlum in District Mandi Bahauddin. The approval was given in PPDWP's 53rd meeting of current fiscal year presided over by P&D chairman Muhammad Jahanzeb Khan and attended by all Members of P&D, Secretaries and other senior representatives of the relevant departments' official. Sources told Business Recorder that new bridge on the river Jhelum would facilitate people of Malakwal tehsil of Mandi Bahauddin and Pind Dadan Khan Tehsil of Jhelum district as well as Sargodha after linking both tehsils at Chak Nizam.
The only way of crossing the river for the people of area for the last five decades has been the railway's Victoria Bridge near Chak Nizam which they mostly cross on foot as only two trains ply on the route daily. About 4,000 people cross the Victoria Bridge on foot daily after reaching the bridge through motorcycle-rickshaws from both sides.
The bridge also has a pedestrians track to cross over; however, federal and provincial governments had approved an asphalted road along the railway track of the bridge which could never be executed. The provincial government has now approved the project of constructing a separate bridge on the river. Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif laid foundation stones of several welfare projects costing Rs 23 billion last month as 2018 is the election year.
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