Rawalpindi—Commissioner of Rawalpindi Division Zahid Saeed on Tuesday said that the development projects of flyover from Benazir Bhuto Hospital to Chandni Chowk and underpass at Chohr Chowk, Peshawar Road would be carried out by Punjab Highway Department soon.

Presiding over a meeting held in his office to review the projects, he directed WASA, SNGPL, PTCL and IESCO to submit their demands notes for shifting of their services from Murree Road away from the alignment of flyover, so that the payments should be made to them start the project. The meeting was attended by Director General of Rwalpindi Development Authority (RDA) Ch Naseer Ahmed, SE Highway Farhat Munir, CTO Dr Muhammad Azam, Ex. Public Health Muhammad Saleem Raza, TMO Rawal Town Malik Mumtaz Ahmed and representatives of National Logistic Cell (NLC), Islamabad Electric Supply Company (IESCO), Sui Northern Gas Company Ltd (SNGPL) and Pakistan Teelcommunication Company Ltd (PTCL).

The commissioner directed the consultant of the projects, NESPAK, to submit the final design to the office of Chief Engineer Punjab for approval.

The estimated cost of the flyover of Murree Road is Rs.880 million and that of the underpass at Chohr Chowk is Rs. 520 million. It was decided in the meeting that Civil Aviation Authority would be approached for taking the no-objection certificate about the height of flyover which was 5.5 meter and grill of the bridge would be one meter.