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SANGLA HILL, (MILLAT+APP): Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz
Sharif on Friday inaugurated the Sangla Hill Interchange here
at Faisalabad-Pindi Bhatian Motorway to directly link the
surrounding areas with the motorway.
The interchange would provide the residents of the area
an easy access to Lahore, Islamabad, Sargodha, Chiniot, Chak
Jhumra, Faisalabad and Jhang.
Federal Ministers Birjees Tahir and Saira Afzal Tarar
and Members of Parliament were also present on the occasion.
The Chairman National Highway Authority briefed the
Prime Minister about the project, completed at a cost of
Rs 299.2 million.
The interchange would also help the traffic on Lahore,
Sheikhupura and Faisalabad roads to easily move to Pindi
Bhatian-Faisalabad Motorway.
The commercial traffic of under construction industrial
zone in Faisalabad would also get benefit of the facility.
Total stretch of Sangla Hill Interchange is 3.7
kilometres that also comprises two toll plazas and a
traffic control building.
The construction of interchange at Sangla Hill had
been a longstanding demand of the locals and completion
of the project would help ease the travelling of thousands
of people, besides paving way for economic prosperity through
agricultural and industrial development.