The cost of Pakistan’s M6 motorway between the cities of Sukkur and Hyderabad has nearly tripled in six years as a result of “mismanagement and inordinate delays by the federal government”, the Express Tribune reports.
It will be a 306km, six-lane highway with 15 major interchanges and 89 bridges.
The allegation was made at a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Planning and Development this month.
The committee heard that the estimated cost of the motorway had risen from $617m in 2018 to $1.1bn in 2022 to $1.7bn today.
Committee members expressed concern that the rise in costs had occurred even though the design of the road had remained the same.
The project is being carried out as a public-private partnership.
Senator Jam Saifullah commented that the project should have been made part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, but was told that China had vetoed the idea.
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