Tag: Completion

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Secretary Nasir Mehmood Khosa on Sunday directed the departments concerned that the ongoing projects included in the development programme of South Punjab be completed during the current financial year by June 30 at all costs and more funds required for completion of the projects be immediately released.
He was chairing a meeting at the commissioner's office to review development projects of the Multan Division. Nasir said that if any problem is being faced

GUJRANWALA - Gujranwala Division Commissioner Saeed Wahla has directed Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) to complete the project of Sialkot-Gujranwala-Daska road before the start of the rainy season.
He was addressing a meeting to review work on the project on Saturday. The meeting was attended by DCO Barrister Nabil Ahmad Awan, Director Development Anwar Aziz, FWO Project Manager Colonel Sibte Hassan Rana, Colonel Umar, Colonel Imran Zafar, Major Imran, XEN Provincial Highways

SAHIWAL - Sahiwal Division Commissioner Qazi Muhammad Ashfaq Qureshi has taken a strong notice of the slow pace of construction work in the projects being completed under the Rs 500 million package announced by the Punjab government for the city.
He directed the departments concerned to immediately start double shift for completion of these projects within next 2 months. He gave these directions, while reviewing the development projects at a special meeting held in his office.

FAISALABAD - District Coordination Officer (DCO) Nasim Sadiq has said that under the Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's big city development package, Rs 650 million are being spent on different uplift schemes in the city to solve the problems of heavy traffic and sewerage.
He disclosed the details of the schemes while chairing a meeting to review the pace of implementation on the big city development package of the CM. Tthe meeting was also attended among others by EDO

FAISALABAD - DCO Nasim Sadiq expressed his displeasure over the slow pace of development schemes in education and health sectors and directed the city government officials to take disciplinary action against the contractors responsible for the delay. The action should include imposition of penalties and exclusion of their names from the government contractors' list, he said.
He was presiding over a meeting to review the progress of work on various development schemes. He gave a

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday advised the government to complete under-construction small dams on war footings, as it would not only help in the development of land and water resources, but would also generate employment opportunities for the poor besides distribution of state lands of the command areas amongst the poor women.
He expressed these views during a presentation given to him here at the Presidency on progress made so far in building small and medium

ISLAMABAD - Food and Agriculture Minister Nazar Gondal has said that a high efficiency Irrigation System would be introduced next month. He said that the government maintains its commitment to establishing badly needed modern irrigation infrastructure to enhance agricultural productivity and save water as water resources deplete.
He was presiding over a meeting on the project entitled "Water Conservation and Productivity Enhancement through High Efficiency Irrigation System" at

ISLAMABAD - The slow pace of work on the Neelam-Jhelum hydro-power project has exposed the Pakistani authorities' lack of commitment to complete it by June, 2010 - the deadline set by the Ministry for Water and Power in the Power Policy 2002. The project had started in 2008, but only 16 percent to 17 percent of the work has been done, as work on head race tunnel has not been started so far.
"On the other hand, India has completed 15 percent of the tunnel of Kishanganga

WAZIRABAD - The local traders demanded of the government to complete legal formalities for the early completion of the industrial estate project in the city.
The city has no match in the field of cutlery items, but is suffering a business decline these days. On the request of the late provincial law and education minister Raja Khaleeq Ullah Khan, a site for an industrial estate was selected and a small industrial estate inaugurated in 1993 in Wazirabad. But the provincial

SAHIWAL - Sahiwal Division Commissioner Tariq Mahmood Khan, while chairing a meeting in his office, has directed the building department to ensure quality construction and early completion of development projects within the set time so that people can get benefit from these projects as early as possible. DCO Muhammad Khan Khichi, Director Development Habib Jilani and other relevant officers were also present at the meeting. As many as 11 road projects have been initiated with Rs 500

WAZIRABAD - The construction work on the sewage scheme of Wazirabad city, to be completed with the special grant of the Punjab chief minister, has not so far been started and an inordinate delay has irked the people of the area.
The Public Health and Engineering Department was required to get the project from Nullah Palkhu to Ahmadnagar Road completed in 2009 and the job was assigned to Asad and Company. The sewage pipes of the Public Health Department are still lying in the

KARACHI - Summit Bank (formerly Arif Habib Bank) and Atlas Bank will officially merge and start operating as a single bank under the name of Summit Bank. Completion of the legal merger means that the two banks can now make accelerated progress in integrating their activities. With effect from the merger date,
they will be allowed to exchange and share client information and can start technical migration of client data. The proposed management appointments' previously announced

ISLAMABAD - The Zero Point Interchange (ZPI) is far away from meeting its December 31 completion deadline as Capital Development Authority (CDA) has not been able to make timely payment to the project contractor.
"CDA has yet to pay Rs 350 million to the contractor who may stop the project work if the civic body fails to make payment within the next few days," said an official requesting anonymity.
He added that many other contractors working on various uplift projects were

LAHORE: The future of the Lahore Ring Road (LRR) project, brainchild of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif, is again looking dark, as three major packages of its northern loop planned to be completed in the current fiscal year, have been shelved after alleged misappropriations and slow delivery of payments to the contractors, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Although other packages of the LRR project would continue according to the original roadmap, the scrapping