LAHORE: Punjab Local Government Minister Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed has announced presenting a Lahore Master Plan to control the population pressure in the metropolitan city by Dec 31 this year.

The minister said the city was facing problems of traffic congestion, smog and other ills just because unplanned influx of population in the metropolitan city. He said the new master plan would help control smog in the city.

The local government minister said the government had decided to ban illegal housing localities and that a commission had been established to look into the issues.

As per the new master plan, he said, the unplanned and illegal expansion in the housing localities and influx of population would be stopped. He said the government had approved recruitments in the Shehr-e-Khamoshaan Authority to resolve the problem of graveyards in big cities.

Published in Dawn, December 23rd, 2021