Director General, Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) Lieutenant General Muhammad Afzal also attended the meeting. The meeting reviewed different options to start expressway project from Ravi Bridge to Kala Shah Kaku. While addressing the meeting, Shahbaz said the 6km long expressway project would facilitate the people in the real sense; as completion of that project would rid the people of traffic problems. He said latest infrastructure helped in increasing economic, industrial and trade activities. Keeping this in view, the infrastructure in the province had been improved with a cost of billions of rupees, he added.
Shahbaz said the expressway project would help to streamline the traffic system, and the completion of that project would provide better transport facilities to the citizens. He further said the construction of expressway would not only facilitate the residents of nearby localities, but would also help in solving traffic problems of Lahore bound traffic. He observed that latest means of transportation played an important role in the development. The construction of roads not only increased employment opportunities, but also boosted economic activities, he added.
Shahbaz directed to constitute a committee comprising concerned departments and organisations and said the committee would present its final recommendations within next few days. He also directed to complete the feasibility report as soon as possible. Earlier, DG FWO Lieutenant General Muhammad Afzal called on the Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif and discussed the development projects being initiated in collaboration with the FWO in the province. The Chief Minister expressed satisfaction over the pace of development on infrastructure related projects and observed that infrastructure had been improved in Punjab.
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