Chief Minister of Punjab Mian Shahbaz Sharif has inaugurated Lahore Feeder Bus Service, in the provincial metropolis on Monday. While addressing at the inaugural ceremony, the Chief Minister said 200 air conditioned busses will ply from 6 am to 11 pm at night on 14 feeder routes. These buses will cover 130 kilometre of entire route of Metro Bus and 120,000 commuters will be benefited with this new bus system. Feeder Bus Service will be useful in commuting people residing in near area to metro bus station.
The Chief Minister has also announced to inaugurate Feeder Bus System in Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Multan's Metro Bus Service routes, also said at the event that Metro Bus System is facilitating common man day and night and thus providing them with safe and swift transportation and Feeder Bus service is an exemplary addition in it. Commuters will be charged with 15 rupees fare from one side and they will also be charged for 20 rupees only on Metro Bus Service, in this way Metro and Feeder Bus service fare is interlinked.
He said that subsidy of billions of rupees and provision of best transport facilities to common man will be a constant prick for the elites and they will be in pain on the provision of facilities to common man. It is the right of the elites to travel in expensive cars but when it comes to the facility of a poor man, this question becomes a constant nagging prick for them. Punjab Government is utilizing the resources with honesty on providing the best facilities in education, health and transportation sector.
"Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has laid a responsibility of serving common man on my shoulders and I will fulfill my promise at any cost and I will go to any limit to change their lifestyle by providing them with better standard facilities so that they can also feel themselves as respectable Pakistani citizens," Shahbaz said.
Those who are indulged in corruption, unscrupulous deeds and frauds have no right to criticize the welfare projects for a common man, in other words their looted money should be showered on common man or otherwise their corrupt money should be snatched from them and should be spend on providing the health, education and transportation facilities of a common man, he further said.
"We can build Pakistan a real Islamic welfare state after implementing the sayings of Iqbal and Quaid where laws and rules prevail and where everyone is getting equal opportunities to excel. The standard transportation facility is the one of the example of Quaid's directions and Government is working on Quaid's teachings under the leadership of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif" he added.
He stated that "I will also commute in the same bus and together we will make Pakistan prosperous. Let's hold hand of miserable people as our riddance, welfare and respect lies in it". While talking to the media , Chief Minister said that I don't want to comment on anything however Niazi Sahib is working on the same Jangla Bus Project in Peshawar, the one he has criticized a lot in the past and all know that this project provide respectable and comfortable secure transport facility to the common man. It cannot be calling Jangla Bus but will congratulate Peshawar people on the inaugural of splendid bus system that will facilitate the common man.
He said that Niazi Sahib has finally acknowledged the importance of Metro Bus System instead of criticizing it like in the past; he always gives a late verdict. I will request them to refrain calling this standard transport facility as Jangla.