Leh Expressway Project to be Resumed

[Salman]

RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has decided to resume development work on the Leh Expressway project. Reportedly, the project will comprise a dual carriageway from 9th Avenue to Ammar Chowk.

Under this project, a sewage treatment plant will also be developed at Adiala Village, where sewage will be treated for use in irrigation.

The Leh Expressway project was inaugurated in 2007 by then president General ® Pervez Musharraf, however, after the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) formed a provincial government in Punjab in 2008, the project was put on ice.

Now the Punjab government has once again decided to resume the project and according to a news source, the authorities concerned have completed the survey of the area to acquire land for the project.