Metro Bus Service ‘to be inaugurated in big way’

Rawalpindi
National Logistic Cell (NLC) Director General Major General Mushtaq Ahmad Faisal and Commissioner Rawalpindi Zahid Saeed visited different sections of the Metro Bus Service (MBS) Project Package-II and reviewed pace and quality of the construction work.
They expressed overall satisfaction over the speed and quality of the ongoing construction work at the site, which is in final phase of completion.
During the visit, they said a grand and historic inauguration of the multi-billion project would be arranged, following which, residents of Rawalpindi and Islamabad would enjoy cheap, fast and decent public transport service — a hallmark of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government.
They said all available resources have been utilised in completion of the mega development project, which would usher in a new era of progress and prosperity for the common man.
On the occasion, Package-II Chief Malik Arif gave a detailed briefing to the NLC director general and the commissioner on the pace and quality of construction work being carried out at different sections of the project.
Giving details, he said that 95% of construction work has been completed at the elevated track of MBS Package-II — Committee Chowk to Sixth Road — for which NLC experts, engineers and construction teams worked day and night. “They carried out development work at the technically difficult Package-II in a highly professional manner,” he added.
The Package-II Management, Malik Arif said, has opened both sides of the Committee Chowk-Sixth Road section of the project for traffic after reconstruction and carpeting of Benazir Bhutto Road in two weeks against the three-week deadline.
He apprised the NLC director general and the commissioner that the entire civil work has been finished at sections from where civic bodies had removed their utility services. “Final touches are being given to the Package-II site,” he added.
He said that the full-scale work was in progress on all eight packages of the MBS 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.
He said the NLC, which is contractor of the MBS Package-II, has not compromised on the quality of construction and maintained international standard throughout the project period keeping in view needs of the modern times.
Malik Arif said the Metro Bus terminals have been constructed using modern techniques, designs, besides equipping them with latest facilities to facilitate commuters.