Tag: Project

HAFIZABAD - The Kitchen Garden Project is Punjab government's revolutionary step to increase vegetables' production as well as provision of cheap vegetables to the consumers. Punjab Kitchen Garden Project Director Asghar Khan said this while addressing a seminar held at Hafizabad.
He said the objective of introducing this project was not only to create a new trend of growing vegetables at domestic level but also to provide cheap vegetables to the people of the province. At least

KARACHI - Pakistan and Central Asian States (CAs), especially Tajikistan, will open a new chapter of trade relations by implementing various proposed options to boost bilateral trade. Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon, with other related ministries/officials, will visit Pakistan on March 10, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Visit of the Tajik president was followed by visits of both President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to Dushanbe in the last two years.

Lahore - The New York Times (NYT) in conjunction with GigaOm published an article "BitMate Brings BitTorrent to the Developing World" on 28th February on the BitMate project undertaken by Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) School of Science and Engineering Computer Sciences (CS) Department Associate Professor and BitMate project Head Dr Umar Saif and students. BitMate is a modified BitTorrent client that allows people to share and download torrents over dial-up

LAHORE - The Minister for Agriculture Punjab Malik Ahmed Ali Aulakh has said that effective measures need to be taken in order to promote the chief minister's kitchen gardening project. He said that, with progress and promotion of this project, self sufficiency in produce vegetables would be ensured and people would have access to fresh, cheap and quality vegetables - full of nutrition and free from diseases. The minister directed higher authorities from the agriculture department to

KARACHI - The Sindh government asked the World Bank (WB) on Wednesday to review its decision of not assisting in the development of the Thar coal energy project and provide support to make the scheme possible. Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah made this request during a meeting with a WB delegation at the Chief Minister's House.
The WB officials assured the chief minister that they would review the necessary modalities and further discuss the issue at another meeting to be held

KARACHI - The Sindh government will stop bureaucrats' allowances and incentive packages so that money could be saved for plugging and repairing flood protective bunds, sources in the Finance Department informed Pakistan Today.
Government officers working on various projects are drawing funds worth billions of rupees in the form of special allowances, project allowances and incentive packages. Sindh is dealing with one of the worst financial constraints following the floods that

LAHORE - WAPDA Chairman Shakil Durrani has directed the Chinese contractor Messers Dongfang Electric Corporation to accelerate work on Jinnah Hydropower Project, so that it could start electricity generation by August this year. He expressed these views during his visit to Jinnah Hydropower Project.
The project is a part of the least-cost energy generation plan, being executed by WAPDA, to harness the indigenous hydropower resources of the country. Speaking on the occasion, the

ISLAMABAD - Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Zhob area in Balochistan and inaugurated the Kassa Hills Marble project, there on Monday.
Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani, provincial cabinet members including Home Minister Zafarullah Zehri, notables and large number of locals also attended the ceremony, according to an ISPR statement issued here.
The Kassa Hills Marble project has been initiated by the Pakistan army with the cooperation of

FAISALABAD - The city government, as a part of its plan to expand roads, has approved a landmark project to relieve the massive traffic jams at Abdullahpur Chowk and the surrounding areas. The project includes construction of three underpasses beneath Tariqa bad overhead bridge leading to Chak Jhumra Road at a cost of Rs 1.25 billion which will be completed in eight months.
The underpasses project is a part of the continued campaign by the city government under DCO Nasim Sadiq to

SIALKOT - The development work on the mega project of Sports Industries Development Centre (SIDC) and Sialkot Business and Commerce Centre has been accelerated. Official sources on Sunday said the SIDC project was initiated by the Ministry of Industries, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority (SMEDA) and the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) to help sports industry to adopt new technology of mechanised thermo-laminated balls by providing training, facilities

ISLAMABAD - Because of ill planning and coordination among the concerned official quarters, Clean Drinking Water for All (CDWA) Programme has failed to achieve its objectives of improving the quality of drinking water by building countrywide water treatment facilities and hence millions of rupees earmarked for the project were lost.
This project, started by the Ministry of Environment, was prepared at cost Rs 7871.74 million and was cleared by ECNEC in April 2006. Later the

GUJRANWALA - Frontier Works Organization Project Manager Colonel Sibte Hassan Rana has announced to complete eastern bypass of the city by 31st May and revealed that smooth supply of allocated funds will ensure the completion of project within its timeframe.
So far 23% work has been completed and the FWO has been arranging the most modern machinery and workforce to achieve the target. He claimed this during a briefing to media people at its camp office. Colonel Rana briefed the

ISLAMABAD - The second wind energy pilot project has become operational in the federal capital after the installation of indigenously developed two kilowatt wind turbine at Daman-e-Koh on the Margalla hills. The wind energy vertical turbine designed by a local firm Associated Gas and Electric Company (AGECO) operates at the availability of wind in the range of 2.1 meters to seven meters per second against the maximum required range of 3.5 meters per second to generate 1.5 to two kw of

KARACHI - The technical and financial evaluation committee formed by the Sindh government to select a private partner for the execution of the modern grain storage facility project in the public-private partnership mode held its first meeting on Wednesday.
The meeting, presided over by Adviser to the Sindh Chief Minister on Planning and Development Dr Kaiser Bengali, discussed the modalities and framework of the grain storage project. The committee includes adviser to the chief

LAHORE - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Punjab on Monday arrested Danish Shamshad involved in the Lahore Mass Transit System Project reference from the accountability courts' premises. Danish is son and bona fide beneficiary of key accused Shamshad Gulzar who embezzled Rs 401.155 million from funds allocated for the Lahore Mass Transit System Project. NAB arrested him with permission of the accountability court.
Earlier, Advocate Saadia tried to take the accused out of

SIALKOT - The provincial government has finally shelved the project of establishing the Sialkot-Lahore Motorway due to prolonged non-availability of the funds. The revenue department has lifted the ban imposed on the sale and purchase of the land acquired several years ago for the motorway and has advised the concerned officials to give back the acquired land to its actual owners by getting back the money from them.
A formal official notification has also been issued by the

LAHORE - The project of the urban transport buses will be implemented from February 2, 2011, inaugurated by the advisor to chief minister and Lahore Transport Company Chairman Khawaja Ahmed Hassan, and operational subsidy will be given to old and new urban buses in the city, said LTC General Manager (Operations) Asad Rehman Gillani talking to a delegation of First Bus Urban Transport Company.
First Bus Transport Company Managing Director Noor-ud-Din Ahmed headed the delegation.