RAWALPINDI: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Thursday re-launched Varan Tours bus service in Rawalpindi.He also announced that work on the Elevated Expressway over Murree Road would begin soon, saying the project will ease traffic flow between Mareer Chowk and Faizabad on the city’s busiest artery.
Speaking at the function, where local MNAs and MPAs, senior officials of provincial and city district governments and many others turned up, the chief minister said that it’s unfortunate that commuters wasted their precious time waiting at bus stops.He said that the Punjab government was committed to providing better travelling facility to the people of the province and revolutionary measures were being taken for the purpose.
He said that the government had made a new transport scheme under which a quality public transport service would be guaranteed throughout the province. He said that 25 per cent funding to this ambitious project would come from the provincial kitty. He said that the scheme was aimed at providing commuters with quality transport at affordable charges.Shahbaz said that the PML-N led provincial government was striving to end people’s deprivation through provision of better facilities.
He said that efforts were on to provide justice, education and health facilities on the doorstep of the common man.He accused the last government of wasting resources thoughtlessly by purchasing luxurious items for themselves.Shahbaz said that no nation could survive without justice and the PML-N was raising its voice for restoration of the deposed judges including chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
He said that his party would never accept the incumbent PCO judges. Varan Tours Chairwoman Uzma Gul said on the occasion that she had to close down transport service in the past due to the last government’s political victimisation.She said that the service’s closure cost 1,200 employees their jobs. She said that over 200,000 commuters used to travel in Varan buses daily.
She said that the company would try its best to provide commuters of Islamabad and Rawalpindi with a quality transport service.
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Lahore also needs Shahbaz Sharif attention towards revamping transport system sepecially the present Bus system and Mass Transit too.
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