INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
construction projects are going to be inaugurated across the country by the end of the sixth Iranian calendar month of Shahrivar (September
22), IRIB reported.According to Kheirollah Khademi, the mentioned projects will be put into operation in various provinces including
Mazandaran, Kerman, Khorasan Razavi, Khuzestan, Ardabil, Zanjan, Fars, Hamedan, Sistan-Baluchistan, Ilam, Gilan, Tehran, and South
Khorasan.The official noted that the inauguration of the mentioned projects is going to reduce road accidents by 70 percent because turning
infrastructure, both in the railway and in the freeway and highway sectors, some good measures have been taken in the past year; some
past year, 129 kilometers (km) of freeways have been constructed across the country which will hopefully be put into operation by yearend
(March 20, 2023).Pointing out that in the highway sector, about 551 km of highways and 184 km of main roads have been constructed, the CDTIC
head said that more than 237 kilometers of the mentioned highways and main roads will go operational in 16 provinces by late
September.According to the official, over 49.52 trillion rials (about $172.9 million) has been invested to construct the said 237 km of
network in the previous Iranian calendar year (ended on March 20).EF/MA
