‘Karachi doomed as it lacks rapid transit project’

Cabinet committee chairperson calls for completing Green Line project by deadline

ISLAMABAD: Lamenting the lack of transport infrastructure in Karachi, the chairperson of the National Assembly's standing committee on cabinet secretariat called the metropolis "Pakistan's doomed city, having no rapid transit project."

He was addressing a meeting headed by Aminul Haq, a member of the cabinet secretariat, on Friday.

The committee was informed that the first phase of the Green Line bus rapid transit project was completed in 2018, but work on the rest of the project was suspended at the moment. They were further apprised that the project would take at least 40 weeks to complete, following the Executive Committee of National Economic Council's approval to begin work on it.

At this, the standing committee chairperson stressed that the execution of the project should be completed by the set deadline.

The development minister has been summoned at the next committee meeting, where he would be requested to issue funds so that work on the project could be relaunched.

Later, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ali Muhammad Khan told the committee members that a subsidy of Rs700 million would be given on the project annually.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 22^nd, 2020.