Lahore beautification plan

Commissioner Zulfiqar Ahmed Ghumman directs staff to start work without delay

A man rides a donkey-drawn cart supplying steel rods on a smoggy morning in Lahore, Pakistan November 10, 2017. PHOTO: REUTERS

LAHORE:

Commissioner Zulfiqar Ahmed Ghumman on Thursday directed the officers concerned to start work on the beautification schemes without further delay.

Chairing a meeting regarding the beautification plan for the provincial capital, he said that the departments concerned should collaborate to accomplish the uplift plan within the stipulated time period.

During the meeting, the commissioner was briefed that beautification plan was underway in Main Market Chowk, Shimla Hill Chowk and Circular Road. He said that cycling tracks in Bagh-e-Jinnah and Jillani Park are being established while a suggestion about developing a cycling track along Canal Road was also being considered but not finalized yet.

Lahore Deputy Commissioner Danish Afzal, Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) Chairman Syed Yasir Gilani, PHA Director General Jawad Qureshi, Metropolitan Corporation Lahore (MCL) Chief Corporation Officer Syed Ali Bukhari and other officers attended the meeting.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 4th, 2020.

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