PHA DG visits public parks

Gives staff one week to finish task

LAHORE:

Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) Director General Jawad Ahmed Qureshi directed the staff to make better arrangements in all public parks of the provincial capital for visitors.

Reportedly, he gave the staff a week’s time to complete the task. He issued these directives while visiting various parks, including Jallo Botanical Garden, Bagh-e-Jinnah, Istanbul Chowk and The Mall, with officers concerned and horticulture officers Jawad Ahmed Qureshi on Sunday. He further said that the PHA was working hard to improve nurseries by planting new saplings to improve standard of recreational places spread across the city. He stated that plants’ trimming process were also carried out everywhere in full scale, adding that repairing and beautification work of birds’ nests located at Istanbul Chowk would be completed at the earliest. He said horticulture officers must enhance capacity of their work and heed to grow plants based on new research and the latest technology to achieve the desired objective.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 25^th, 2020.