A four-member team from Pakistan conducted a joint survey with Indian officials on Dera Baba Nanak-Kartarpur corridor project for the part to be constructed on the Pakistan side.
“It has been informed by Commandment BSF that Pakistan wants to construct a bridge on their side to join bridge on India side and a survey team of seven engineers will visit the bridge on the India side to carry out the survey for the project,” read a letter from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).
India had already constructed its 100-meter long portion of the bridge as part of the Kartarpur corridor project. Pakistan is yet to build the bridge on its side.
“Theirs (Pakistan) was a survey team. They were four persons led by a senior surveyor while three others were assisting him”, said Jatinder Singh, vice president of Ceigall India Limited, which executed the construction work of the corridor.
“They came here to survey the 100-meter bridge which we have constructed on our side”, said Singh.
He said Pakistan is to build a 260-meter portion of the bridge over the low-lying area in its territory.
Kartarpur Sahib Corridor is a 4.7-kilometre-long passage that connects Dera Baba Nanak Sahib in India’s Gurdaspur and Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan’s Kartarpur. It was inaugurated in November last year by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the Kartarpur Corridor was shut down by the Indian government.