LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority’s Governing Body on Tuesday approved hiring of two senior lawyers for representing the provincial government and the authority in the court of law in the case of the Orange Line Metro Train project.
Under the approval accorded by the participants in a meeting, the LDA will hire services of Advocates Khwaja Harris and Mustafa Ramday for the Orange Line case by paying them more than Rs20 million, sources told Dawn.
The Governing Body headed by CM’s adviser Khwaja Ahmad Hassaan also granted administrative approval for undertaking three development projects in the city at a cost of Rs830 million. It also gave a go-ahead for undertaking project for widening, improvement and rehabilitation of 4.7-kilometre long part of Defence Road, from Labour Colony Raiwind Road to Shahkam Chowk for Rs736 million. It will be a dual carriageway with three feet median having LED lights. A bridge will also be constructed on the nearby drain as part of this project.
The meeting also allowed the LDA to build six flyover gardens in the city for Rs91 million.
The LDA will also carry out beautification and improvement of Shadman underpass at a cost of Rs5.1 million. Artistic design work, paint work and electrical work will be executed at this location.
Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2016
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