The Punjab chief minister Sardar Usman Buzdar Wednesday accorded approval to recruit traffic wardens on approved 1400 vacant posts and also directed to start anti-encroachment campaign on roads to ensure smooth flow of traffic.
This approval was accorded in a meeting held to review different proposals for improving the traffic system of the provincial metropolis. ACS (Home) and Chief Traffic Officer presented various proposals for removing hurdles being faced by the citizens in their daily movement. The meeting decided to include articles about traffic laws in the educational syllabus and the CM asked the line department to compile the required syllabus.
Addressing the meeting, the chief minister directed to take immediate steps for improving the traffic system as people are facing difficulties due to disruption in the flow of traffic. In this regard, special attention should be paid on roads' engineering, he added. He said that effective traffic management will facilitate the people adding that the best traffic system is the identity of a civilized society. Therefore, steps should be taken to ease the movement of citizens and line departments should come up to the new challenges of traffic management resulting due to increase in population, he added.
Provincial ministers Raja Basharat, Mian Aslam Iqbal, special assistant (transport) Javed Akhtar, Chief Secretary, IG Police; ACS (Home), administrative secretaries, Additional IG (Traffic), MD Lahore Parking Company, Commissioner and DC Lahore and others attended the meeting.
Moreover, on the direction of the CM Usman Buzdar, a meeting was held at CM Office in which principle decision was taken to install equipment in government offices for saving electricity and the target was fixed to convert 25 public sector universities to solar energy by the end of the current financial year.
The meeting was told that 20 to 30 percent saving of electricity will be possible due to the use of electrical devices and the carbon being produced due to electricity use will be decreased by 1.2 metric ton annually. Other public sector department buildings will also be converted to solar energy in phases and solar energy will be used in Punjab under World Bank funded green project.
Dubai and Korean companies have shown interest in investment in the energy sector of Punjab. Industries minister Mian Aslam Iqbal, advisor Dr Salman Shah, secretary energy, Chairman PBIT, PEECA experts and others attended the meeting.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2019
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