CHAKWAL: Provincial Minister for Housing and Urban Development and Public Health Engineering Malik Tanveer Aslam Awan laid the foundation stone of a much-needed bridge at Nala Bhinao near Sehgalabad village on Sunday evening.

The bridge would be completed in four months at a cost of Rs80 million.

Besides laying the foundation of the bridge, the minister also inaugurated a high school for girls built at a cost of Rs11 million and a 2400 feet long road in Chak Baqar Shah village. The bridge on Nala Bhinao was a long standing demand as with the construction of this bridge the distance to Chakwal would be reduced by 10km.

Speaking at the launching ceremony of the bridge, Malik Tanveer Aslam Awan said that work on the bridge would be completed in four months.

“Health, education and roads are among the top priorities of the Punjab Government,” he maintained and added that this conception was wrong that the Punjab government was developing big cities. “The fact is that numerous development projects are being undertaken in remote areas,” he claimed.

The minister said a road from Ara (tehsil Choa Saidan Shah) to Rawal (tehsil Pind Dadan Khan) is being built at a cost of Rs22m and this road would link Chakwal and Jhelum districts.

Published in Dawn, February 17th, 2016