Islamabad – The Rs50 billion Metro Bus Project was to be completed within record 10-month time after its inauguration on February 28, 2014 and its deadline extended to mid-February 2015, is likely to need further time period for its completion.
On January 28, Monitoring and Implementation Committee on Metro Bus Project Chairman Hanif Abbasi 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.
Its managers 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.
Even some changes in the design were made in the present month, The Nation has learnt. The Punjab government has already been paying almost Rs5 million per day subsidy against Lahore metro bus project. The CDA Ordinance 1960 says that CDA will be solely responsible for carrying out developmental activities within its municipal limits.
