LAHORE: The Punjab government has announced to grant Rs 113.8 million tax exemption to 2,673 people affected by the construction of Orange Line Metro Train.
This was disclosed by chairman steering committee for the Orange Train project Khawaja Ahmad Hassan.
As many as 2604 persons have been granted waiver of property tax to the tune of Rs 112 million whereas 69 persons have been given exemption in professional tax of Rs 0.93 million, he added.
The chief minister has directed the concerned to carry out another survey for providing relief package to the small shop keepers who do not fall in the category of either property tax payers or professional tax payers, with a view to compensate their loss as a result of construction activity in the area he further added.
He claimed that two third of the civil work on Lahore Orange Line Metro Train Project has so far been completed and efforts have been geared up for starting train’s operation on 25 December 2017. He told that 66.5 percent civil work of the project so far has been completed. Progress on package-I from Dera Gujjaran, G.T.Road to Chouburji was 81.5 per cent, on package-II from Choburji to Ali Town was 49.5 percent, and on Depot near Dera Gujran was 72 percent while on Stabling Yard near Ali Town it was 62.8 percent.
