Islamabad Mayor and Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Sheikh Anser Aziz said that road infrastructure of the federal capital would be developed according to international standards to meet the future traffic needs of the city.
He expressed these views while chairing a high level meeting to review the performance of Market and Roads Maintenance Division, senior officers of the authority attended the meeting.
All roads development and maintenance projects being carried out in the city should be completed well in time without compromising on quality of work.
Concerned departments should accelerate the pace of work so that the residents could be facilitated in better way, the mayor said. During the meeting it was briefed that Roads Division-V the rehabilitation of MR-II from NESCOM to IJP Road, Sector I-11 has been completed in all respects, while 95pc work on construction of external infrastructure in Sector H-10 has been completed while remaining work was being carried out at fast pace.
The meeting was further told that 80pc road development work in Sector I-11/1, vacated from Katchi Abadi, has been completed while rest of the work would be completed with stipulated time. The meeting was further told that during May, rehabilitation of approach road from GT Road to Hajj Complex in Sector I-14 has been also completed.
During the meeting it was further told that construction of VRs in Sector I-16 was in progress and 95pc work on the project has been completed while efforts were being made to complete the remaining work within given time frame. Similarly construction of remaining portion of service road (South) of Sector I-16/4 was also completed during the last month.