Uplift schemes after technical evaluation

LAHORE - DCO Lahore Sajjad Ahmed Bhutta has said that the City District Government is initiating development schemes identified in the ADP after evaluating their feasibility in the District Development Committee.He was speaking at The Nation Forum on Friday.

Sajjad Ahmed Bhutta said the technical evaluation of development schemes and their expected cost was necessary to ensure that no additional funding was required and all new projects were completed within stipulated time period.

“We want initiation of all development projects identified in the ADP. But their technical evaluation is necessary to check relevance between the identified projects and their cost to ensure that once the project is initiated, it completes within time frame,” the DCO said adding, the CDG was also taking on board the elected representatives in the locality where development project was to be initiated to avoid confrontation and unrest in the society.

To a query regarding the role of nazims, he said that the local government system was intact and all the elected representatives were being given due importance and they were part of the system. Bhutta said the CDG was launching massive operation for the eviction of cattle from residential areas.