Government has allocated Rs 1,000 million for the Peshawar Northern bypass in the present fiscal year Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) and National Highway Authority (NHA) will strive for its early construction, an official of NHA said.
The official said that completion of the 34 kilometre project would ease traffic burden on the roads inside Peshawar city and link to Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway with G.T. Road.
The official said that bottlenecks in the project were sorted out in collaboration with the provincial government which would prove helpful in its early completion.
He said that in the ongoing fiscal year’s Public Sector Development Programme Rs 600 million had been allocated for Peshawar Northern Bypass.