CDA plans to run mini-train service on Islamabad Expressway

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CDA plans to run mini-train service on Islamabad Expressway

Islamabad

The civic body has planned many new initiatives for better development of local infrastructure to facilitate growth of business activities, Capital Development Authority (CDA) Member Administration Amer Ali Ahmed said.

He said the CDA has planned to make Islamabad Expressway signal-free and launch on it a mini train service as well as build two flyovers at Kashmir Highway. He said these initiatives would play a positive role in facilitating people as well as promoting business activities.

He expressed these views while talking to a delegation of business representatives led by FPCCI Vice President Munawar Mughal which called him here.

Amer Ali Ahmed apprised the delegation of issues being faced by the local business community. The delegation comprised ICCI Founder Group Chairman Abdul Rauf, former ICCI presidents Tariq Sadiq, Zafar Bakhtawari, Ejaz Abbasi, Khalid Iqbal Malik, Khalid Chaudhry, Malik Sohail Hussain, Chaudhry Mukhtar, Tahir Ayub and Naeem Piracha.

He assured the delegation that reservations of business community related to the performance of Planning Wing and Building Control Section of CDA would be removed and added that a meeting of CDA officers has been called in the next week to discuss and resolve all key issues of traders and industrialists.

Speaking on the occasion, FPCCI Vice President Munawar Mughal appreciated the positive approach of CDA member administration, but complained that other officers of CDA were not showing the same level of cooperation to resolve problems of the business community due to which many issues of traders and industrialists were lying pending for 15 years. He said the business community was unhappy with the performance of CDA and urged that the civic body should become proactive to facilitate smooth growth of business activities. He stressed that the CDA should eliminate case-to-case policy regarding lease renewal cases and the CDA Planning Wing should mend its ways to become problem-solver instead of problem-creator.

ICCI Founder Group Chairman Abdul Rauf said that thousands of lease renewal cases were pending with the CDA due to which not only businessmen were suffering, but the civic body was also losing revenue. He said that the federal ombudsman had decided a case 13 months ago, but the CDA was not implementing that decision. He said the Planning Wing was proving to be the main hurdle in addressing issues. He called upon the civic body to take urgent measures to resolve all issues of business community so that traders and industrialists could be facilitated in promotion of business activities
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