📋 Tender Overview
Scope :
The project will dualize about 535 kilometers (km) of provincial highways in south punjab from the existing two-lane to divided four-lane standards with road safety and climate resilience features. it will also engage concessionaires to conduct operations and maintenance for the project roads through tolling and performance-based maintenance approach.
it will also support the government to (i) establish a dedicated entity with streamlined funding to manage all provincial highways in punjab; (ii) conduct road safety assessment for the provincial highway network of punjab and pilot the safe system approach with a framework and action plan; and (iii) improve climate resilience of the road network and communication and works departments disaster-response capability.
There is a significant geographical disparity in the development of punjabs economy, with the southern and western districts of the province (more rural, agricultural) lagging substantially behind the relatively more prosperous northern and eastern districts (more urban, industrial). the inadequacy of east-west road connectivity becomes most apparent in southern punjab given the north-south orientation of the three high-capacity national road transport corridors (m4, m3, and n5) while there are no direct east-west corridors linking the market towns of southern punjab and the neighboring districts in balochistan and khyber pakhtunkhwa across the indus. the government of punjab in its punjab spatial strategy and the punjab growth strategy 2023 assessed and identified the potential of punjabs growth corridors and nodes with competitive economic position, and proposes to focus special attention on the development needs of backward areas, such as southern punjab which is lagging in social and economic development due to the past pattern and distribution of public sector spending.
Transport / road transport (non-urban)
Concept Clearance: 11 Dec 2020
Fact Finding: 09 Aug 2021 to 23 Aug 2021
MRM: 12 Sep 2023
Approval: -
Last Review Mission: -
Last PDS Update: 14 Dec 2020
