Faisalabad promised 100 eco-friendly buses

Service to be expanded later to tehsil level

FAISALABAD:

The government is contemplating to run 100 environment-friendly buses in Faisalabad.

The facility will be expanded to the tehsil level at a later stage. This was stated by MNA Chaudhry Shehbaz Babar while presiding over a meeting of the Faisalabad District Coordination Committee (DCC).

He said the government was spending huge funds to improve the standard of living of the people by providing them basic amenities at their doorsteps. After a briefing about the inter-city bus service, the legislator said that in the first phase, 100 environment-friendly buses would start providing service in Faisalabad within the limits of the Ring Road. However, in a later phase, the facility would be expanded to the tehsil level so that the students and industrial workers could avail the service to the maximum extent.

He also stressed the need of security arrangements for Muharram and said the DCC should be convened again before Ashura. He said that public welfare and development projects would be executed on a war footing.

The MNA also said that efforts would be accelerated for establishing an information technology university and a teaching hospital in Faisalabad.

He suggested that the teaching hospital should be constructed near Ring Road on Sammundri Road so that the people belonging to Sammundri, Tandlianwala, Gojra and Toba Tek Singh could be provided quality treatment facilities, lessening the burden on other teaching hospitals in the city including the Allied Hospital-I and II.

DC Abdullah Nayyar Sheikh informed the participants that local transporters were ready for the bus service.