Buzdar chairs meeting of public-private partnership policy and monitoring board
Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar chaired a meeting of public-private partnership policy and monitoring board at his office and approved the inception of seven projects, costing around Rs 75 billion, in public-private partnership mode. Secretary PPP policy and monitoring board Dr Farrukh Naveed briefed about the progress made on the projects.
According to details, repair and maintenance of KharianDinga road and MuridkeNarowal road's restoration work will be done in PPP mode. Similarly, Gujranwala-Pasrur road will be dualized from Gujranwala Eastern Bypass to Sialkot-Lahore Motorway (Pasroor Interchange).
Furthermore, the Multan Ring Road project and Naya Pakistan Housing Development Plan in Faisalabad will also be executed through public-private partnership mode.
The BoR land at Jail Road will also be utilized under a public-private partnership. The meeting approved to cancel the RFP and bidding process of the Rawalpindi Ring Road project and allowed revised proposals for the Multan-Vehari dual road project.
The meeting excluded GujratJalalpur Jattan Road from PPP mode for its inclusion in the public sector development program (PSDP). The proposals regarding the Faisalabad-Chiniot-Sargodha dual road project were approved along with the approval of the revised proposal of the water meters' installation project in
Lahore. The construction of three parking plazas in Rawalpindi was also approved by the meeting.
The CM directed to expedite work on PPP mode projects for their completion according to the timelines. The timeline of every stage of the project should be determined, he added and further directed to expedite work on roads construction projects in PPP mode.
The decisions made in the sixth meeting were endorsed. Housing Minister Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed, C&W Minister Sardar Asif Nakai, Economic Affairs Advisor Dr Salman Shah, SACM Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan, Chief Secretary, SMBR, Chairman P&D, administrative secretaries, CEO PublicPrivate Partnership Authority Amjad Ali Awan, member PPP and planning & development and others attended the meeting.
Earlier, Akhuwat founder Dr Amjad Saqib called on Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar at his office and discussed empowerment of the impecunious strata through microfinancing. The CM said philanthropists are the benefactors of society as they strive to lessen the difficulties of the destitute.
Meanwhile, the Punjab government has started the Ehsaas program to empower the neglected segments of society. Similarly, a project has been launched to rehabilitate the transgender community while the elderly citizens will also be assisted in the shape of trimonthly pensions, concluded the CM.
Meanwhile, Usman Buzdar chaired the video-link meeting of Punjab Masstransit Authority at his office and approved re-tendering of janitorial services' contract of orange line metro train. The meeting reviewed different proposals to minimize the subsidy of the orange line metro train and the CM directed to take steps for the issuance of the personalized cards.
The authority will submit its recommendations in 30 days and the fare will be determined according to the travel distance. In-principle approval was accorded to constitute a separate force for the security of the metro bus service. This will help in saving security-related expenditures.
The stations and corridors of the metro bus system in Lahore, Multan and RawalpindiIslamabad will be used for revenue generation. Similarly, the orange line metro train stations will be utilized for increasing resources.