Buzdar announces safe city project for Murree

CM Punjab says 54 percent of development budget utilised so far

RAWALPINDI:

Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has announced a safe city project for Murree.

Presiding over a meeting in the office of commissioner Rawalpindi, the Punjab chief minister said that so much development work had been done in Punjab that it would take time to explain.

He said that Punjab used 54 percent of the development budget to outperform other provinces.

The meeting was attended by Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid, Provincial Ministers Raja Basharat, Fayyaz Al Hassan Chauhan, Malik Anwar, Raja Rashid Hafeez, Yasir Humayun and Yawar Bukhari, members of national and provincial assemblies from Rawalpindi.

Ministers from the Rawalpindi division and assembly members presented recommendations regarding public welfare schemes. Buzdar said that Punjab also has the honour of presenting the largest development budget in its history and a record development budget will also be presented next year. He said that he was meeting public representatives in each division. He said that the public representatives of Rawalpindi have always given unconditional support and will field trustworthy people in the local body elections.

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He said that in Punjab, 23 new hospitals have been set up and 158 hospitals have been upgraded. Buzdar said that the charter of 12 new universities had been finalised and it will be submitted soon for approval. Five new dams are being built and the completion of the Jalalpur irrigation project will revolutionise agriculture in the region, he said.

Rawalpindi Division Commissioner Noorul Amin Mengal briefed the chief minister Punjab about the development profile. He said that 3,631 ongoing and new development projects will be completed in the Rawalpindi division at at a cost of Rs207 billion.

The commissioner said that the Rawalpindi Ring Road project would solve the traffic problems while the Lei Expressway and flood channel project will be completed at a cost of Rs30.30 billion.