Regional
Punjab govt to withdraw 'controversial' Rawalpindi Ring Road project from P3A
Lahore: The Punjab government Thursday decided to withdraw the Rawalpindi Ring Road project from the Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A), the government of Pakistan, and start it under the PC-1 mode.
The decision was taken at the 8th meeting of the Public-Private Partnership Policy and the Monitoring Board held under the chair of Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar at his office on Thursday.
It was decided to start the RRR project under the PC-I mode with the resources of the Punjab government.
The meeting also decided to withdraw the Kharian-Dinga Road project from the public-private partnership portfolio.
The CM directed to early resolve the matters relating to the projects. Revised project proposals of Multan-Vehari Road and Faisalabad-Chiniot-Sargodha Road were also approved along with the endorsement of the revised proposal of the water meters project in Lahore.
Upon a request of PITB, the meeting recommended giving the implementation authority of citizens' facilitation centres, to be established in different cities, to public-private partnership authority. The citizens' felicitations centres will be started in PC-I mode in Lodhran, Chakwal, Sialkot and Rahim Yar Khan, the meeting decided further.
Buzdar directed to complete the projects according to their respective timelines while fulfilling the formalities.
The decisions made in the 7th meeting were also endorsed by the participants while member PPP cell Quratul-Ain-Memon briefed about the progress on development projects.