Seven major city roads completed in Sialkot

Sialkot: Sialkot District Nazim Muhammad Akmal Cheema said that work on seven main city roads under City Development Package has been completed at a cost of Rs 650 million.

He said that the local business community contributed 25 percent of the cost. Under the Package more than Rs 518 million would be spent on the construction, widening of resurfacing different of different roads.

He said that ultramodern traffic signals with timers would be installed, costing Rs 2.4 million on newly completed Khwaja Safdar Road, and added that under the first phase of the programme traffic signals would be installed at Lorry Adda and Shell petrol pump roundabout, while blinkers would also be installed on four different turning points and lights on Khwaja Safdar Road would also be installed shortly.

The Nazim stressed the need of utilisation of available funds the projects pertaining to people's welfare for ensuring maximum facilities to the masses in Sialkot district. He said that Khwaja Safdar Road had been completed under Citizen Community Board (CCB) at a cost of Rs 80 million, of which the local business community contributed Rs 18 million and Sialkot Cantonment provided highly valued land costing Rs 200 million.

Punjab government has evolved a plan of low price housing, costing Rs 1 billion, for accommodating poor, destitute and shelterless people. Official sources said that the concept of undertaking the scheme is to resolve the accommodation problems on permanent basis.