is fully completed.
An official of the Metro Bus office, while giving his views, didn’t look sure that the deadline on the project would be met. He said the efforts of the authorities which also include the contractors is to complete the elevated expressway on time, enabling them to operate buses on January 30. However, other components like construction of service roads leading from Mall Road to Faizabad Chowk and laying of new drainage and sewerage pipelines would be delayed. In all, the entire project would not meet the deadline, he claimed.
Similarly, Metro Bus Project Director and Commissioner Rawalpindi Captain (r) Zahid Saeed agreed that work on Package-2 is behind schedule against other packages of the project. However, authorities are carrying out work speedily even on Package-2 with the purpose of completing it on schedule. He said that the main portion of project -- elevated expressway -- would be over by January 29 with the objective of operating buses on January 31 after inauguration by the prime minister and Punjab chief minister. However, work on other components like sideline portions, including carpeting of service roads and laying of drainage and sewerage pipelines, would continue even after January 31.
When the views of Hanif Abbasi were sought, he reiterated his previous claims that the project would meet its deadline and inaugurated on January 30 by Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. According to him, only little work is left on the project which would be over in a couple of days before the inauguration time. He did not agree at all that only 50% of work has been done till now on Package-2. "Like other packages, work on Package-2 is being carried out round the clock and I see no reason any delay in it," Hanif Abbasi added.
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