Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag saw the 176.4 km Choir-Sainshand road construction work on the way to visit Dornogovi aimag on Tuesday March 12th.

The road construction work, financed by loans from the Export-Import Bank of Korea in 2006, had been halted due to contract price increases for some time.

The road construction work re-started with finance from the US Millennium Challenge Foundation project and has now been 70 percent completed. P.Batsaikhan, a representative of the auto road project of the Millennium Challenge Foundation told the Prime Minister that the road connection between Choir-Sainshand will be operational by September 1st.

The project coordinator said that soil removal and dam work was 100 percent completed and asphalt and paving work 9 percent near completion.