Land allocated for hospital in G-11
Capital Development Authority (CDA) has allocated five acres of land for building a hospital in Sector G-11, said Special Assistant to PM (SAPM) on CDA Affairs Ali Nawaz on Sunday.
“In addition to the hospital in Sector G-11, a 200-bed healthcare facility will be established in Tarnol for the rural population,” he said.
The SAPM said that civic work in the city gained momentum, following shifting of four formations of Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation to CDA. To improve water supply to the city, he said an authority along the lines of WASA will be created in the federal capital. A contract had been signed for provision of 200 million gallons of water per day for Islamabad and Rawalpindi from the Ghazi Barotha Dam.
The SAPM said the contract for adding two more lanes to 10 kilometre long IJ Principal Road and for its maintenance would be given in the next three months. He said the government had spent Rs2 billion on the development projects of rural areas in Islamabad while another Rs2 billion would be spent in the next phase on more projects in the 32 union councils of Islamabad.
CDA, he said, would provide land for construction of a slaughter house with the public private partnership. He told that 17 Basic Health Units were revamped and staff would be hired to meet the medical needs of the people. CDA had allocated five acres of land for building a hospital in G-11 while a 200 bed facility will be established in Tarnol.
He said the rural areas of Islamabad were without a graveyard and now 10 acre land had been allocated and the tender would be issued for the project.
In response to a question, Ali Nawaz said Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public hearing for the landfill site in Sangjani next month.
Meanwhile, Raja Khurram Nawaz, a local Member of the National Assembly (MNA) termed government's move of transferring the key civic departments to the CDA, a new beginning of transforming Islamabad into a model city under the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
He said no development work was carried out even in a single Union Council (UC) of Islamabad by IMC, functioning under the chairmanship of Sheikh Anser."It was the public who bore the brunt of his politics and slackness," he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 19th, 2020.