Metro bus for other cities soon: Shahbaz

[A.Rafay]

LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said the Metro Bus Service project was being expeditiously completed in the provincial capital. He said the project would also be launched in Rawalpindi, Faisalabad and Multan, to provide speedy and affordable travelling facilities to the people.
Presiding over a meeting on Metro Bus Service project on Wednesday, the chief minister directed the department concerned for fast preparing a feasibility report on operating the Service in the these cities.
Shahbaz said the Metro Bus Service track from Gajumatta to Shahdara was continuing round the clock whereas all possible steps were being taken to ensure speedy completion of this project.
The chief minister said the second phase of the project would commence from Azadi Chowk to Ring Road via Railway Station and GT Road. He directed the LDA director general to utilise all out resources to ensure quick completion of the project, in addition to making an effective system of traffic management during the execution of the project.
He directed LED screens should be installed in the City to provide traffic related information to the citizens, while generators be arranged for 24 hours operationalisation of these screens. He directed all important traffic signal should be converted to solar energy.
The chief minister said a comprehensive modern system of sanitation was being introduced in all major cities of the province in view of the burgeoning population.
The latest solid waste management system, implemented in Lahore with the cooperation of Turkish companies, would also be introduced in Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Multan and Gujranwala within this year, while this modern system of cleanliness extended to all major cities of the province, Shahbaz said.
Addressing a briefing session of Punjab Skill Development Fund (PSDF) for low income families, the chief minister said the Fund was successfully operating in the districts of South Punjab, while the scope of this programme would be extended soon throughout the province.
The chief minister said deserving persons were being imparted different skills under the programme. He said the efficiency of fund could be further augmented through close coordination and cooperation between the concerned institutions.
The CM passed directions for forming a committee to solve the matters relating to PSDF and exploring the possibility of establishing a Youth Skills Development Authority. He informed that after its success in Lahore, a slaughterhouse would also be established in South Punjab to provide meat to the general public in accordance with hygienic principles.
Shahbaz said, by preparing a skilled force, we could reduce unemployment and poverty; however, such courses would have to be evolved which were in accordance with the market needs.
Department for International Development (DFID) UK head in Pakistan George Turkington, DFID Economic Growth Group President Alex Ferren, Lead Advisor Punjab Economic Opportunity Forum Fatima Afzal, Secretaries of industries, planning and development, PSDF chief executive officer Ali Sarfraz, Sara Saeed, Dr Ijaz Nabi and Almas Haider were also present on the occasion.

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[airmarshal]

I m sorry. A great initiative but the way you manage things, it will be another expensive and flop project.

You dont build institutions that can sustain such project in the long term, you want to keep all powers in your hand. Thats a very desi and backward method of managing. Since oyu are a family mafia, send your kids to foreign universities and and ask them to work in foreign firms. In that way they will learn new skills.

If the fate of Pakistanis is to elect again and again family mafias like you, then it will be some solace to know that your family members have some skills which may remotely help Pakistan.

 

[Edevelop]

Planning has always been the issue.

Lahore has a population of more than 15 million people, it needed a Railway Metro Underground badly. BRT is not a bad thing, but it cannot serve to be profitable and sustainable for long term. Since Lahore is a proper city and a capital of Punjab of course, one should expect it to have the kind of development plan that will see less road lanes and more buildings/residential properties in place of it. The underground i say is beneficial because i see London, Madrid, and Tokyo using it as a success...

As far as other cities are concerned, i definitely believe Faislabad and Rawalpindi should get BRT. For Multan, i would leave it for Trams. Its a city of rich Islamic history and culture, and can serve as a great deal for tourism.

 

[A.Rafay]

The whole steel and cement used in the project was from nawazs steel and cement mills and that have skyrocketed the profits of nishat mills owed by these two brothers and they further want to use their own factory materials in other projects too in other cities and congratulations you found a new way to become richer by looting people indirectly!