The flyover along Hudiara drain will link the scheme on the northern side with Defence Road near the Katch railway crossing. PHOTO: APP
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority governing body on Saturday approved the construction of a 2.1 kilometre road and a flyover for its new housing scheme, LDA City.
The 180-foot wide road will provide access to the scheme from Ferozepur Road from Gajju Matta. It will end in Kahna Kachha. It will run parallel to the Lahore Ring Road.
The road will be constructed through a public-private partnership at a cost of Rs1013.3 million.
The flyover along Hudiara drain will link the scheme on the northern side with Defence Road near the Katch railway crossing.
The flyover will be constructed through public-private partnership. The LDA will be responsible for acquisition of land and removal and relocation of utilities along the route at a cost of Rs809.38 million. The private firm will incur the cost of construction.
The meeting was chaired by LDA Vice Chairman Khwaja Ahmad Hassaan. Those present included Director General Ahad Khan Cheema, Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Managing Director Chaudhry Naseer Ahmad and Provincial Assembly Members Bao Muhammad Akhtar (from Lahore), Yaqoob Nadeem Sethi (from Kasur) and Rana Muhammad Arshad (from Nankan Sahib).
The meeting also decided to delegate the power for recovery of mortgaged plots as well as sub-division of residential plots in private housing schemes to the (LDA) chief metropolitan planner and authorised the (LDA) chief town planner to approve permanent commercialisation of plots originally set aside for non-commercial use.
The meeting amended the Integrated Master Plan of Lahore 2021, allowing change of land-use from agricultural to residential in the area bounded by GT Road, Upper Bari Doab (UBD) Canal, Bambanwala-Ravi-Bedian (BRB) Canal, Hudiara Drain, Bedian Road, Khaira Distributory, Burki Road, and Shalimar Link Road.
The LDA governing body also decided to regularise the services of 781 contract employees in the WASA and the TEPA and promoted 155 officials in the LDA and its two subordinate agencies. It allotted a plot in MA Johar Town’s Civic Centre to the WASA for construction of its headquarters.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 5th, 2015.
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