As many as 2604 persons have been granted waiver of property tax to the tune of Rs 112 million whereas 69 persons have been given exemption in professional tax of Rs 0.93 million, he added. Chief Minster Punjab has directed the concerned to carry out another survey for providing relief package to the small shop keepers and 'Khokha' owners who do not fall in the category of either property tax payers or professional tax payers, with a view to compensate their loss as a result of construction activity in the area he further added.
He claimed that two third of the civil work on Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project has so far been completed and efforts have been geared up for starting train's operation on 25 December 2017. He told that 66.5 percent civil work of the project so far has been completed. Progress on package-I from Dera Gujjaran, G.T.Road to Chouburji was 81.5 per cent, on package-II from Choburji to Ali Town was 49.5 percent, and on Depot near Dera Gujran was 72 percent while on Stabling Yard near Ali Town it was 62.8 percent.
He informed that grey structure of seven elevated stations has been constructed along package-I while work on another four stations was in full swing. So far 640 out of the total 670 U-tub girders required for construction of elevated viaduct along package-I have been precast while 503 such girders have been launched. Work for construction of ground floor slab of underground Anarkali Station is underway.
The Chinese contractor CR-NORINCO has started installation of escalators on Islam Park station besides doing other electrical and mechanical works at site. Form works to precast transoms and U-tubs girders required for construction of elevated train in package-II have been imported and precast of transoms have been started. Construction work of four stations of this package, Chauburji, Gulshan Ravi, Samanabad and Bund Road will be completed by 15 June while the remaining nine stations will be completed till 15 July.
Khawaja Ahmad Hassan directed for expediting road construction work between Samanabad and Chowk Yateem Khana for facilitating flow of traffic in the area. He also called upon all the relevant departments as well as the contractors for getting their staff trained by Rescue 1122 for adopting safety measure in case of any untoward incident.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2017