LOS dual carriageway to be completed by May

[Salman]

The Punjab government has given task to the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) to complete the construction of four lane dual carriageway from LOS Ferozepur Road to Multan Road along Sumnabad Nullah by May 30, 2014.

LDA, Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency (TEPA), SNGPL and Telecommunication departments have been given timeframe to complete their work within the stipulated period for the timely completion of Rs 3.2 billion project.

The LDA has already completed operation against illegally properties to vacate government lands from the squatters along Nullah to carry out construction of a dual carriageway from LOS, Ferozepur Road to the Multan Road. Hundredes of houses, shops and motor workshops have been constructed along both sides of the drain inculuding LOS side and Poonch Colony side causing disturbance for the traffic and all these encroachments had been demolished.