CM oversees compensation payment to train affectees

LAHORE

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif directly contacted, through modern technology, the Payment Centres set up for payment of compensation for the Orange Line Metro Train project and also addressed a meeting in this regard at the Civil Secretariat through video link. He inquired from landowners, ministers, assembly members and administration present at three payment centres simultaneously about the pace of payment. 

The landowners thanked chief minister Shahbaz Sharif for evolving a speedy and transparent system for the payment of compensation and giving best rates for their properties.

Talking to the chief minister, the landowners said, under his leadership, they were getting best rates for their properties and his political and administrative teams were also extending all-out cooperation. Shahbaz Sharif directly contacted the Payment Centres at Engineering University, Thokar Niaz Baig and Government College Ground Jain Mandir at the same time through modern technology and reviewed the payment process. He appreciated his political and administrative teams for continuing the process of payment of compensation to the landowners in spite of being a holiday of Solidarity Day with Kashmiris and said that it was a national service and a form of worship to work for brethren and sisters. 

The chief minister was informed in a briefing that a sum of one billion rupees had been paid as compensation during one day and other payment of more than two billion rupees had been made so far.

Moreover, bank counters have also been set at the payment centres for facilitating landowners. The chief minister ordered  acceleration of the process of payment and said that all landowners would be paid compensation within next few days. He said all demands of justice would be met in this regard.

The chief minister directed that all necessary facilities should be available to the landowners at the Payment Centres and ministers, assembly members and administrative officers should continue visiting the Payment Centres so that no one should face any problem. He said Orange Line Metro Train was a splendid project and its opponents had no concern with progress and prosperity of the common man. 

Shahbaz Sharif said opponents of the public welfare projects would face disappointment while Pakistan would move ahead and no conspiracy of such elements would succeed. The chief minister said the Punjab government had promoted the new culture of transparency, standard and speed in the implementation of the development  projects and Lahore Orange Line Metro Train project would also be a unique example in this regard and lakhs of poor people would benefit from this project. Provincial Minister Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman, Members Provincial Assembly Waheed Gul, Bao Akhtar, Malik Habib and Commissioner Lahore Division were also present at Engineering University Payment Centre while Provincial Minister Bilal Yassin, Member Provincial Assembly Majid Zahoor, DCO Lahore at Government College Ground Jain Mandir Payment Centre and Provincial Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmed, Member National Assembly Mehr Ishtiaq, Member Provincial Assembly Saif-ul-Malook and others at Thokar Niaz Baig Payment Centre were present. Adviser Kh. Salman Rafiq, Kh. Ahmed Hassaan, MD Punjab Mass Transit Authority and other officials participated in the meeting through video link from the Civil Secretariat while DG LDA was present at Model Town.