ISLAMABAD, July 10: The government has decided to enhance the scope of work of heliport project to make it more secure for the president, prime minister and other VIPs, officials of Capital Development Authority (CDA) told Dawn on Tuesday.

Presently the CDA is constructing second hanger in the heliport for the choppers of 6th Aviation Squad, a department working under cabinet division which provides helicopter service to the president, prime minister, VIPs and for disaster management, and the cabinet division has now directed the authority to construct a boundary wall around the heliport spreading over 32 acres near Sports Complex.

“The decision to construct boundary wall was conveyed to the CDA on the occasion of its Chairman Farkhand Iqbal’s visit to the heliport on Tuesday,” said a senior official of the authority’s director general planning Sarwar Sindhu.He said the CDA chief had called a meeting of 6th Aviation Squad officers on Wednesday to finalise the construction of boundary wall.

Responding to a question about the cost of the new project being incorporated in the existing one, the DG planning said the officials of 6th Aviation would come up with their plan that would include the cost of the project. As the cost of heliport project is being borne by the federal government, it will also allocate funds for the construction of boundary wall that would be erected by the CDA.