Saturday, June 26, 2010

CM Reviews Improvement of Ferozpur Road Project

Hopefully this improvement shall be for the future construction of Lahore Mass Transit Project ............. Lets see .............
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LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has stressed the need for coordinated efforts by the departments concerned for maintaining a high standard of the roads in the provincial metropolis and provision of better facilities to the citizens.



He was addressing a meeting held to review the measures taken for the improvement of Ferozepur Road here on Friday. Members Provincial Assembly Hafiz Mian Nauman, Mian Naseer Ahmad and Ramzan Siddique, Commissioner and District Coordination Officer Lahore, Directors General LDA and PHA, Managing Directors WASA and Solid Waste Management, DIG City Traffic Lahore and prominent journalist Iftikhar Ahmad were also present on the occasion.
He directed that an effective strategy should be evolved for monitoring efficiency of the government departments and the officials showing better performance should be encouraged while action should be taken against those who fail to perform satisfactorily.

He announced cash award of Rs5 lakh for government officials showing outstanding performance in the construction of Ferozpur Road.

He directed that parking plazas should be constructed on large pieces of land in the City and announced that a modern parking plaza would be constructed on four Kanal land at Icchra. He also directed to conduct a survey of petrol pumps in the provincial metropolis and submit him a report in this regard.

The chief minister said government is implementing a comprehensive strategy for providing better facilities to the citizens and measures are being taken for improving infrastructure throughout the province.

He said better facilities could become available to the citizens if government departments perform their responsibilities with commitment and dedication. He said the income generated through the sale of public properties under the privatization policy of the government would be spent on water supply and drainage schemes, improvement of infrastructure and provision of other facilities in the same districts.

He directed that besides improving Ferozepur Road, 15 more roads of provincial metropolis should be selected for improvement on the same pattern and a report should be submitted to him within ten days. He directed to adopt a uniform policy for constructing bus shelters on the roads. He said that comfortable seats, water coolers and other facilities should be provided in these bus shelters. He said that keeping in view the increasing traffic in the provincial metropolis, construction of parking plazas is the prime need.

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