LAHORE: Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has directed the authorities concerned to start the elevated expressway project from Gulberg to M-2 on a priority basis as it will help the travelers reach the motorway while decreasing the traffic burden on Canal Road and Multan Road.

He was reviewing the elevated expressway project in the meeting at his office on Tuesday. He reviewed the launch of the environment-friendly electric tramway project also.

Adviser Dr Salman Shah, ACS, chairman P&D, secretaries of transport and housing departments, the PMA DG and others attended the meeting. The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) director general briefed the meeting on the project.

The elevated expressway would pass over Canal Bank Road, Jail Road, Ferozepur Road, Multan Road and Bund Road to reach Babu Sabu. Interchanges would be constructed on the Canal Road, Jail Road, Ferozepur Road, Multan Road and Bund Road.

Reviews electric tramway project

Later, provincial minister Syed Sumsam Ali Bukhari, MNA Rai Muhammad Murtaza Iqbal and PTI leader Rai Hassan Nawaz called on him at his office on Tuesday.

Speaking to the visitors, the CM claimed that every district had been given a development package to ensure composite development and the PTI government had set a new example of public service during the last three years. He said the opposition parties could not compare their 30-year-long dark era with the three years of the PTI.

Not a single scandal of the PTI government had surfaced whereas stories of corruption used to surface every day in the past as the former rulers abused resources relentlessly for personal projection, he said and added that politics of propaganda was the modus operandi of the opposition.

Mr Buzdar repeated that the vision of equitable development was being ensured in the ‘New Pakistan’ and the resources were not limited to some specific cities as the development journey had been expanded to remote and backward areas.

In a separate statement, CM Buzdar said the useless agitation of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) had died down, leading to embarrassment for the opposition.

He advised the opposition to adopt a practical approach instead of following a negative agenda. The opposition parties always tried to interrupt the development journey while ignoring national interests, he regretted and maintained that those engaged in the politics of anarchy should realise facts.

Published in Dawn, January 5th, 2022