CM to inspect pace of work on Metro Bus Project today

Rawalpindi
Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif would pay a visit to Rawalpindi today (Friday) with the objective of inspecting work being done on the Metro Bus Project.
Credible sources in the RDA told this scribe that the chief minister would take a round of the Metro Bus Project sites in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
It would be the chief minister’s second visit to Rawalpindi in a week.
According to sources, the chief minister’s visits to Rawalpindi would continue till the completion of work on the Metro Bus Project. The main purpose behind it is that the Punjab chief minister doesn’t seem satisfied with the concerned authorities due to delay in completion of the project and he wants to get the task geared up by making visits to Rawalpindi.
Since the last visit of the Punjab chief minister to Rawalpindi on Sunday, the concerned authorities and contractors had further expedited work on the project in order to complete it at the earliest.
However, according to sources, work on the project doesn’t seem to get completed before mid-June despite hectic efforts for its early completion.
In connection with the chief minister’s visit to Rawalpindi on Friday, the city district government as well as heads of all concerned provincial government departments had asked their staff members to work at the project sites even after their working hours.
The city district government has directed the PHA authorities to get the work of plantation of saplings completed by May 10 at all project sites from Mareer Chowk to Faizabad. Similarly, work on carpeting of roads has been geared up at different points of the project. The work on bus stations falling in Package-II has been completed, said its chief, Malik Arif. The work on carpeting of roads from Committee Chowk to 6th Road has almost been completed and the remaining would be over in a couple of days.
The chairman of the Implementation subcommittee of Metro Bus Project, Hanif Abbasi, when approached in this regard, said that though the plan of the chief minister’s visit to Rawalpindi on Friday morning is on the cards but it is not yet final. To a question related to inauguration of the project, he, without giving any time, said that it would be done in the shortest possible time.