CDA to commence road rehabilitation work on D-12

Instructions issued to repair major roads, service roads, Class-III markets

ISLAMABAD: Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Amer Ali Ahmed on Friday directed the concerned quarters to start road rehabilitation work in Sector D-12 from August 26.

Rehabilitation work would be jointly carried out by the Machinery Pool Organisation (MPO) Directorate and contractor, said a press release issued here.  He gave this order while visiting Sector D-12 in which all members of the CDA board, director general works, deputy financial advisor and officers of the all concerned formations accompanied the chairman.

First chunk of the funds had been released while Finance Wing would make allocations of required funds so that uninterrupted rehabilitation work could be ensured.

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Furthermore, residual work on the approach road of the sector should also be completed at the earliest.  In order to bring improvement in the federal capital, it had been decided that CDA board would visit three sectors each week along with staff from Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) and evaluate what kind of adjustments need to be made.

The CDA chairman visited the entire sector along with concerned officers and directed to initiate immediate re-carpeting and repair of the road furniture. Instructions were issued to carryout rehabilitation of all major roads, service roads, markaz and class-III markets.

In this regard, the contractor was directed to start work on establishment of base and sub-base, while the MPO Directorate was directed to carryout re-carpeting of the roads. Deputy Financial Advisor of the authority was directed to ensure further allocations of necessary funds so that rehabilitation work which had begun start could be completed in all aspects.

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Meanwhile, CDA's Enforcement Directorate conducted an anti-encroachment operation in Katchi Abadi, Sector G-7/1 and demolished seven rooms, two bathrooms, four boundary walls, one scrape store, two sheds and illegally constructed stairs.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 24^th, 2019.