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PESHAWAR, October 6: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak presided over a high level meeting of the public-private partnership committee that okayed the Swat Motorway.
The meeting also agreed in principle to raise a separate police force for the Swat Motorway and the force would also be deployed on other roads of Pakhtunkhwa Highway Authority. Public – Private Partnership Committee is the supreme body for the decision making in this regard.
The meeting held at Chief Minister House Peshawar was attended by Additional Chief Secretary also holding the additional charge of Chief Secretary, Azam Khan, Administrative Secretaries and others.
The meeting was told that Swat Motorway was a Flag-ship project, and was 81 KM long with two tunnels each one kilometre and the construction works was being taken in hand from both ends of the Swat Motorway.
Addressing the participants, the Chief Minister said that Swat Motorway was of prime importance in opening entire northern parts of the province and integrating it to the whole of the country. It is a gigantic project costing Rs. 40 billion and would be completed in the record time, he added. He directed to facilitate FWO in the smooth undertaking of the project and at the same time he also asked the departments concerned to be prepared for this project.
Pervez Khattak said that Swat Motorway would become the main artery of road communication between Northern Areas of the province with the M-I at Karnal Sher Khan Interchange. It will mark a new era of development and prosperity of the province. – PR
