ADB grants aids for Jambi road project

ADB grants aids for Jambi road project

JAMBI: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has provided Rp 19.8 billion in loans for Jambi to finance road repairs in the province for the 2002 fiscal year.

The repair work will be carried out along the highway between Muara Tembesi subdistrict via Sarolangun and Bangko to Sungai Penuh.

Saugi Hamid, chief of the local resettlement and infrastructure office, said here on Saturday that, due to a financial shortfall, his office would give priority to repairing the badly damaged sections of the 100-kilometer highway connecting Muara Tembesi and Sarolangun.

He did not specify the amount of money that would be allocated for the road project.

He added that Rp 9 billion of the funds would be used to repair the 150-kilometer highway linking Bangko and Sungai Penuh and the 418-kilometer road connecting Bangko and Kerinci.

Many roads in the province have been badly damaged because of the absence of restrictions on overloaded trucks passing the roads, coupled with recent flooding.

Saugi added that the local administration had allocated only Rp 11 billion from its 2002 budget to repair damaged roads in the province. --Antara