Work on Ravi Development Zone Project to start soon

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Mehreen Saeed
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  • Strategic Policy Unit to be set up to start work on the project

A Strategic Policy Unit (SPU) will be set up under the supervision of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) director general to initiate work on the River Ravi Development Zone Project.

The LDA governing body decided this in a meeting held on Thursday.

The project entails high quality residential, commercial, institutional, cultural and recreational zones along both sides of the River Ravi on a 33 km stretch.

The SPU will comprise of area specialists of various fields including urban planning, water engineering, transport engineering, GIS, applied economics and finance and will be housed in LDA.

The meeting decided to set up a steering committee led by Lahore Ring Road Authority chairperson who will be responsible for coordination and monitoring of progress of the project and making operational decisions, in anticipation of the approval of the summary sent to the Punjab Chief Minister Shabaz Sharif.

Members of the steering committee will include Commissioner, Lahore Division, representative of Chairman P & D as well as representatives of the secretaries of provincial Finance, Housing and Irrigation Departments, representative of CEO, Urban Unit and LDA Director General as Secretary of the committee.

The Steering Committee will also be tasked to work as Selection Committee for area specialists to be hired to serve in SPU. The meeting approved selection of private development partners and terms of agreement for launching a new housing scheme namely LDA City, on 40,000 kanals of land along Ferozepur Road.

It also approved selection of consultants for Planning and Designing of LDA City and acquisition of additional land after issuance of notification under relevant acts.

The meeting also accorded administrative approval of Rs 1967.953 million for electrification of LDA Avenue-I Scheme, including approval of Rs 43 million for Book Adjustment regarding cost of 43 kanals of land handed over to LESCO (free of cost) for construction of Grid Station at LDA Avenue-I Scheme.

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26 COMMENTS

  1. If the area of Shadiwal near ring road is included in the River Ravi Zone Development – please make sure to supply the clean water to residential of Shadiwal because the current water is so bitter, dirty, smelly and change colour after few minuts.

    Thenks….AslamShad

  3. uU may contaCT meh if uU wanna know aboU each and eVerything related to aboVE mention plan, i may sum up aUthentic detailed note on the exhausting plan coz um also a landlord regarding the concern land which selected to hire fohh govt under l.d.a, um also liVing inside the impugned area. Bilal Chohan 0324-4444880

    • plz tell me1) when the govt acquire the land?2)when this project will start?3)how much govt will give money per acre?4)they will give any plot to land owner in their land as a compensation?plz reply i will thankfull to you………

  6. I have a question for all officials linked with this project . the farmer of this land are working and farming that areas after the dis ownership what will be do ?????????

  8. a.a jageer daaron or sanatkaro ke govt kbi b ghreeb ko benifit nae day skti, balkay un k abaao ajdaad ki jma punji cheenay ge

  9. Lohars does not know anything about agriculture and they do not care. some one must work on how much Sharief family will be getting from this deal. Where is Imran Khan Now. Why is he quiet. whatch which country bans will be filled by Pakistani Politicians.

  10. asslam o alaikum sir i wana some thing about this project……… first of all tell me tha whici areas included in this project, and 2nd thing tell me that plz all acquire area used govt or few place used it. and 3rd thng tell me that the price of all areas will be same or different ,and 4th thung tell me that when will be this project start . and 5th thing tell me that the govt give some plot who had the ownership?,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, plz reaply me athentic person
    03234750560

  11. Lot of our land is coming into this project about 200 acres.Will the government give us market price or will they give us plots in the park.Please let me know about the details.

  12. i want to see high class people who lives in askari X sort of like that places come here for appreciate this project… This project can be a recreational place for us… I think that it will be a better project than metro bus … Thanks a lot to our govt and tuRk co.

  14. is rajian bhangoowan village is also incloded i this schem and what will be the rat of per acker (8 canals) when work will start?

  16. ap mujy ye bta sakty ho k small sanda ravi kay sath wala is zone main hai ya nahi thanks

  20. For a long time we are hearing the river ravi project will start soon but still after many years there is no any progress to see. what will the reason to delay to this project.kindly inform me the present status in this regard.

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