TOBA TEK SINGH-The Lahore-Abdul Hakeem portion of the Peshawar-Lahore-Karachi Motorway which passes through Toba Tek Singh district's Rajana and Pirmahal areas will hopefully open for traffic in April 2018, a federal minister said.
There will be some delay in the completion of M-4 Motorway's Gojra-Toba-Shorkot portion which is expected to open for traffic in June 2018, said Federal Minister of State for Communication Junaid Anwaar Chaudhry in the inaugural ceremony of Press Club's renovated building.
He added that power loadshedding would end for ever in the first week of December from all over the country. He said in his NA 93 constituency, work was underway to provide gas facility for the villages and so far 40 percent villages had already been provided with gas.
To a question about irrigation water shortage in the country and abandoning of Kalabagh Dam project, he said that no doubt Kalabagh Dam's construction was a must for the country but it had been hindered due to politicising of the issue. He criticised local municipal committee chairman who belonged to PTI, for not cooperating with public health engineering department in starting water supply to the city from Trimmu headworks (Jhang) despite 35-km pipeline already laid with at a cost of Rs 1 billion. He said that was the second biggest water supply project after Murree in Punjab. He said the MC chairman was making excuses that Rs5m per year would be spent on recurring of the recently completed water supply project but he was not giving attention to cut or regularise 40,000 illegal water connections in the city.
The minister said he would try his best to get approved the allotment of a piece of land for the construction of journalists colony at Toba. He said that renovation of the Press Club had been completed with Rs500,000.