CM Buzdar inaugurates Abdul Sattar Edhi Underpass

Dunya News

Pakistan

CM Buzdar said that Abdul Sattar Edhi underpass had been completed two months before the deadline.

LAHORE, (Dunya News) - Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar on Monday inaugurated the Gulab Devi Underpass and announced to name it after Abdul Sattar Edhi, Dunya News reported.

The full height three-lane underpass would ease the movement of 132000 plus vehicles while sixty million rupees had been saved through transparent tendering.

On the occasion, the CM said the facility would also benefit the patients of Gulab Devi, children, social security and General Hospital patients while accommodating the hundreds and thousands of citizens in their daily movement.

Federal Minister and PTI Punjab President Shafqat Mahmood, Provincial Ministers Murad Raas, Mian Aslam Iqbal, Asad Khokhar, Ejaz Alam, parliamentarians, PTI leaders, Special Assistant to Chief Minister Hasaan Khawar, IG Police, Commissioner and DC Lahore, secretary information and others were also present.

Talking to the media, the CM said the Gulberg to Jail Road (Siddique Trade Center) flyover had also been named after poet Munir Niazi.

He said that the Abdul Sattar Edhi underpass had been completed two months before the deadline for which Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Director General and governing body members deserve accolades. "The Punjab government has also saved millions of rupees in every project by ensuring transparency", he added.

Federal Minister Shafqat Mahmood while speaking on the occasion regretted that loot and plunder was the norm of the day in the past while CM Usman Buzdar has introduced the culture of transparency and development and his development projects were bringing ease in the lives of the common man as Usman Buzdar was serving the masses with sincerity and commitment. Provincial Minister Murad Raas thanked the CM for resolving public problems.