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One side of Committee Chowk-Sixth Road section opened for traffic

RawalpindiThe management of Metro Bus Service Project Package-II has opened the eastern side of Committee Chowk-Sixth Road section of Benazir Bhutto Road for traffic after its reconstruction and carpeting.Talking to journalists here on Sunday, Package-II Site Chief Malik Muhammad Arif said that one side of the section has been opened

By Saeed Ahmed
April 20, 2015
Rawalpindi
The management of Metro Bus Service Project Package-II has opened the eastern side of Committee Chowk-Sixth Road section of Benazir Bhutto Road for traffic after its reconstruction and carpeting.
Talking to journalists here on Sunday, Package-II Site Chief Malik Muhammad Arif said that one side of the section has been opened for traffic. It would help citizens, especially patients visiting the Benazir Bhutto Hospital, to reach the hospital with ease.
The construction work on the western side was launched on Sunday and it would be completed soon with an additional workforce, he added.
He said officials of the National Logistics Cell (NLC), which is contractor for the Metro Bus Service (MBS) Package-II, were confident and committed to the timely completion of reconstruction of Benazir Bhutto Road from Sixth Road to Committee Chowk.
“Our assignment has entered the final phase as we have completed 97 per cent of construction work at the site,” he claimed.
Malik said the entire civic works at the Package-II site has been finished, while a full-strength workforce has been simultaneously deployed for asphalt at various sections of Benazir Bhutto Road.
“More than 80 per cent work on drains and medians has been completed at places from where the civic bodies have shifted their utility services to the alternative site,” he said.
Replying to a question, the Package-II chief said that there was no complacency whatsoever on part of the NLC at any stage of the project rather it completed various components well ahead of other contractors.
Malik said construction teams had completed the piles and their caps in October and became the first executing agency having finished different phases of the project within the given timeframe.
He said high voltage transmission lines passing through Waris Khan-Chandni Chowk section of the site were removed in mid-September 2014, following which work was resumed to erect pillars for the elevated track, while the mess was cleared from the pedestrian bridge’s stairs at the Rehmanabad terminal in last week of February this year. The boundary wall of the Benazir Bhutto Hospital was reconstructed and shifted under the land acquisition formula in July 14, 2014. While the land issue on eastern side of Waris Khan Bus Station and Chandni Chowk was cleared in November and August 14 last year respectively.
He said that the removal of these impediments was duly acknowledged by Commissioner Rawalpindi Zahid Saeed, who held several meetings with the departments concerned for speedy shifting of utility services to the alternative place and clear the site for carrying out construction in a smooth manner.
He said that the full-scale work was in progress on all eight packages of the project and assured that the NLC would not lag behind other contractors or become cause of any delay in overall completion of the mega project.