LAHORE, Dec 25: Realising the importance of avoiding deadlock with key players, the provincial communication and works secretary has constituted a committee to assess a charter of demands by contractors and make recommendations in three days.

He constituted the committee under his department’s additional secretary (technical) after a 45-member delegation of the Federation of Punjab Contractors Associations called on him on Wednesday evening.

The delegation was headed by federation chairman Sardar Ishaq Khan and comprised representatives of contractors from all over the province. Their charter of demands was “sympathetically” considered by the secretary, said Mr Khan on Thursday.