Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will perform the groundbreaking of 89-kilometre Lahore-Sialkot motorway on Monday (August 22).
According to details, the Lahore-Sialkot motorway project will be completed in 24 months at a cost of Rs 43.847 billion which will pass through agricultural lands besides connecting several centres of economic activity.
The motorway would attract a considerable proportion of localised traffic, providing quick connectivity. The project is being initiated on the long-standing demand of the people of the area in general and industrialists and traders in particular.
The Lahore-Sialkot Motorway would be constructed on a public-private partnership basis and would be of international standard.
The project starts at the Lahore By-pass interchange on N-5 which connects it to M-2 near Kala Shah Kaku and ends about 15-kilometres West of Sialkot. It is designed to serve major population and economic locations.
The motorway will have six interchanges and two service areas. The Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) is the sponsor of the project while the National Highway Authority will be the implementing authority.
