Wattoo urges govt to build dams

LAHORE
PPP Punjab president Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo Tuesday demanded the Punjab government defer the Lahore Metro Train Project indefinitely spend Rs 165 billion on building dams’ network in Punjab.
He said the PPP would launch a movement to mobilize public opinion in favor of dams and against the Lahore Metro Train project if the government did not abandon the project. He said the PML-N government had been in power in Punjab for about two decades but it could not pay attention to build water reservoirs in the province reflecting the short-sightedness of its leadership that could not see the looming dangers of drought in the country that was not too far away. He recalled that floods seemingly had become the regular feature of the country due to erratic weather pattern causing hundreds of billions of losses of life, property and crops throughout the province each year but the government led by Shahbaz Sharif was, regretfully, obsessed with the flashy and showy projects those have disproportionate relevance with the welfare of the large section of the populace.