Provincial cabinet committee approves 10 projects

Over Rs12b to be spent on roads, flyovers, health facilities

LAHORE:

The Punjab Cabinet Committee for Finance and Development has approved 10 new development projects having an estimated cost of Rs12.25 billion.

These projects approved on the directives of Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar include the construction of a flyover in Karim Block, Allama Iqbal Town, at a cost of Rs2.2 billion. An amount of Rs350 million has been sanctioned for the procurement of electro-medical equipment for the Neurosurgery Department of Mayo Hospital.

Gulab Devi Hospital underpass on Ferozepur Road will be constructed at a cost of Rs950 million, whereas allocations of Rs4.5 billion for the construction of Sheranwala flyover and Rs3.8 billion for Shahkam Chowk flyover have been approved.

Similarly, Rs70 million has been allocated for construction of a road linking Mianwali-Sargodha Road to Wan Bhachran , Rs120 million for construction of assistant commissioner's residence and Tehsil Complex at Kot Chhatta. A civil dispensary will be set up in Moza Karoun in Koh-e-Sulaiman tehsil at a cost of Rs10 million and Rs5.3 million will be spent for upgrading the basic health unit of Kharar Buzdar to Rural Health Centre.

The construction of a road from Ghail to Lt Arsalan Alam Shaheed Sati House in Murree will be completed at a cost of Rs355 million.

According to a press release, the chief minister said the government is wholeheartedly working for the development of the province as well as public welfare. He said that government believes in uniform development and no area will remain deprived of progress and development as the manifesto of the PTI government is based on equality.

Government will redress the grievances and deprivations of backward areas by bringing them at par with the developed ones, he said.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, January 4^th, 2021.