CDA Chairman Engineer Farkhand Iqbal conceded his failure to provide residential sectors to the citizens of Islamabad in a ceremony on Wednesday chaired by Prime Minster Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani.
Instead he announced multibillion controversial projects-LED, mass transit system and new power plants in the capital to make it free from load shedding.
Addressing a ceremony organised for the ground breaking of expansion work on of Kashmir Highway, construction of Margalla Avenue, construction of 11th Avenue, and Inauguration of three completed projects by Premier Gillani, Iqbal said the CDA has completed its homework on sectors C-15 and C-16, which will be inaugurated soon.
The expansion of Kashmir highway will cost Rs4 billion and will be completed by 2013, while construction of Margalla Avenue will be constructed in one year with a cost of Rs1.05 billion and construction of 11th Avenue will be completed in nine months at a cost of Rs1.05 billion.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 24th, 2012.
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