LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that about 2,075-kilometre-long roads will be constructed and repaired by September this year under the first phase of Khadim-e-Punjab Rural Road Programme (KPRRP).
The CM said this, while addressing a high-level meeting to review the pace of the programme during which he gave approval to the establishments of Infrastructure Development Authority Punjab. He said that the second phase of the programme, the biggest project in the country’s history for the rural masses, will start in September. He said a draft proposal has been prepared for setting up an autonomous authority to handle the programme.
Sharif said the the Punjab government is implementing the policy of balanced development of all areas of the province. Khadim-e-Punjab Rural Roads Programme is a glorious project of public interest and the biggest programme in the history of Pakistan, therefore work should be carried out speedily on this project, he said, while calling for holding an international seminar on it as soon as possible. He said the second phase of the project, named “Pakian Sarkan – Sokhay Panday”, will start from the beginning of September.
Provincial ministers Rana Sanaullah, Malik Nadeem Kamran, Tanvir Aslam Malik, Dr Farrukh Javed, Chief Secretary Khizar Hayat Gondal, Planning & Development chairman, secretaries and senior officers concerned attended the meeting.
