ISLAMABAD: The government had given fresh deadline for the completion of Rs50 billion Metro Bus Project. Earlier, the government blamed sit-ins of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Awami Tehrik (PAT) for delay. However, the project may face a further delay.
The construction work of twin cities metro bus project was formally inaugurated on February 28, 2014 and it was announced that the project would be completed within record 10-month time but it was delayed for a number of reasons.
However, on January 28 (Wednesday last), Hanif Abbasi, Chairman Monitoring and Implementation Committee on Metro Bus Project had said that the project would be completed by mid-February 2015 as it was delayed because of weeks long sit-ins staged by PTI and PAT in Islamabad.
It apparently looks that the management of the project would fail to meet the fresh deadline due to certain reasons.
The managers of Metro Bus are blaming the political parties for the delay but it is a matter of record that the design of the said project was changed from time to time that caused the delay of the project.
