‘Metro Train project in progress near historical sites’

LAHORE:More than 10 kilometre long track has so far been laid on the elevated viaduct for Orange Line Metro Train while work has been geared up for finishing four kilometre length of the route from Dera Gujjran to Mehmood Booti by the end of current month.

Adviser to Punjab Chief Minister and Steering Committee for Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project (LOMTP) Chairman Khawaja Ahmad Hassan said this while chairing the weekly progress review meeting here on Wednesday.

He said the work near the 11 historical sites was smoothly in progress and all the safeguards, prescribed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, were being fully complied with. Construction of piles and pile caps near Shalimar Garden, Gulabi Bagh, Budhu’s Tomb and Laxmi Building has been completed where U-tub girders will soon be launched for building the elevated track for the train, he added.

He said that pile work had also been completed safely near GPO, Supreme Court Registry and Saint Andrew’s Church.

NESPAK General Manager Salman Hafeez told the meeting that 84.9 percent of the civil work besides 42.6 percent electrical and mechanical work on Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project had so far been completed. Progress on the package-I from Dera Gujjaran, GTRoad to Chouburji was 89.5 percent, on the package-II from Choburji to Ali Town was 77.4 percent, on the depot near Dera Gujjran was 85.5 percent while on Stabling Yard near Ali Town, it was 87 percent.

He said that 92 percent work on Dera Gujjran Station, 96 percent on Islam Park, 95 percent each on Salamatpura and Mehmood Booti while 91 percent work on Pakistan Mint Station had been completed and all possible measures were being taken for finishing these five stations during the current month. Khawaja Ahmad Hassan directed the authorities concerned to ensure public facilitation at all costs during the execution of work on the project.