Summary 85% of allocated funds have been utilized till now: KP Minister
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – KPK government has announced that Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project would be completed in 2020 and people would start getting benefit of the project from next year.
Provincial minister Shoukat Yousafzai in a press conference said Rs 2 billion revenue has been collected. He said 85% of allocated funds have been utilized till now.
Yousafzai said 87 % work on mega project has been completed. He said 30 stations have been finalized while work on remaining 10 stations is underway. He said the BRT project also include an additional eighty-six kilo meter feeder routes.
Shaukat Yousafzai said about four hundred old vehicle owners have registered their vehicles with BRT to scrap.
The minister said we would pay for BRT in rupees instead of dollars.
