39-km Havelian-Mansehra Section Of Thakot-Havelian Motorway To Become Operational By February 2019

39-km Havelian-Mansehra section of Thakot-Havelian Motorway to become operational by February 2019

Work on Thakot-Havelian motorway is going on smoothly and it is expected that six-lane 39-km Havlian-Mansehra section of and the 118kmproject would be completed by February next year .

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Aug, 2018 ) :Work on Thakot-Havelian motorway is going on smoothly and it is expected that six-lane 39-km Havlian-Mansehra section of and the 118kmproject would be completed by February next year .

National Highway Authority (NHA) Spokesman Kashif Zaman told APP Monday that the motorway is in early harvest Project category and its Havelian-Mansehra and it would become operational by end of 2019.To a question he said there would be three interchanges in the 39km section, which included Khota Qabar interchange, Qalandarabad and Mansehra interchange.He said that the execution of this 39-km section of the motorway Hazara division upto Mansehra would be connected with the Motorway network in the country.

This would not only save precious travel time but also play its role in development of the adjoining areas.

He said that the 120km section of the motorway, part of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), is expected to be completed with a cost of Rs133.98 billion.

China Exim bank has been funding 90 per cent of the project, while theremainder 10 percent is being funded by government of Pakistan.

The stretch of motorway from Havelian passes through Abbottabad,Mansehra and Shinkiari, ending at Thakot. It will have five tunnels two at Abbotabad, and one each at Battal, Karmong and Mansehra.