PM Imran to inaugurate Green Line Bus service in Karachi today
Pakistan
Asad Umar said that the commercial operations of Green Line Bus service will start from December 25.
KARACHI (Dunya News) - The long awaited dream of citizens of Karachi is over as Prime Minister Imran Khan is scheduled to inaugurate the Green Line Bus service today (Friday), Dunya News reported.
Governor Sindh Dr Imran Ismail while talking to media along with Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar in Karachi on Thursday said that the PPP government in Sindh has not provided a single bus to Karachi in the past 13 years.
Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar said that arrangements have been finalized for the inauguration of Green Line Bus by Prime Minister Imran Khan today.
He said that the operation on trial basis will start from December 11 to 24, however, the commercial operations will start from December 25 and from January 10 onward the full scale operation would be started.
He said that all mega projects for Karachi promised by Prime Minister Imran Khan are being developed and will soon be completed, adding that 40 BRT buses will be arriving from China in March to facilitate mega city at earliest.
He said that planning ministry has received the revised PC-I for the K-IV project which will be approved in the next one month and fresh contracts will be awarded.
"Through K-IV project, we aim to supply 260 million gallons of water to Karachi and by August or September 2023, the project will be completed." The work on three Mehmoodabad nullah is completed and it will be inaugurated in next few days.
"Fifty percent work on the other two drains, Orangi and Gujjar, has been completed and they will be inaugurated before summer next year." The work on these drains included removal of encroachments, construction of roads and laying of storm water drains.
