HOSHAB
Chairman China-Pakistan Economic Corridor Authority, Lt Gen (retd) Asim Saleem Bajwa has said that Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit Gwadar on Monday (tomorrow) to review progress on the CPEC related projects.
Briefing the media persons on Saturday, the CPEC Authority chairman said the prime minister is giving priority to the CPEC and Gwadar port. Bajwa said construction work on the road infrastructure projects have been accelerated in order to link Gwadar Port with the north of the country and the region. He said that all remote regions of the country need to be brought up at par with developed areas. “This project will complete CPEC’s route and the western route which touches the remotest regions of Pakistan.”
Bajwa said that the completion of the South Balochistan project would not only allow people to benefit from CPEC and Gwadar Port but would also increase accessibility to Karachi. He elaborated that connectivity is one of the biggest issues for the people residing in the region. However, he said, the projects have now been given priority for their completion in the South Balochistan development package.
“A network of roads, which is the dream of the people here, would be laid,” he said. “There are about 80 ongoing schemes and around 200 schemes in this entire [development] package.”
Addressing the issue of electricity supply in the region, he said the prime minister has approved the linking of the grid for which a grid station in Basima town of Washuk district would be constructed. “Work on a power project in Gwadar, which would produce about 3,000MW of electricity, has also commenced,” Bajwa added.
