Sep 13, 2013
LAHORE, Sept 12: City Traffic Police authorities have finalised a plan to build 11 new buildings through its own financial resources and within three months or so, Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Sohail Chaudhry told Dawn on Thursday.
Currently, eight sectors with obsolete infrastructure are functional in as many police stations in the city. The sectors were declared dangerous by the City District Government of Lahore in 2011.
Mr Chaudhry said tenders for the construction had been advertised in newspapers and design for three-room building had also been approved. He said tenders would open on Sept 19.
He said the CTP would spend money raised from forklift head and in this regard the buildings department had given an estimate of expenditures.
Wardens and motorists visiting the traffic sectors for clearing their tickets suffer unhealthy and poor working conditions.
Mr Chaudhry said the plan to build a three-room (two additional bathrooms) sector had been materialised after the collapse of South Cantonment police station in 2011 which left 250 motorcycles damaged.
The CTO said one room would be for the duty officer, another for record-keeping and the third one to deal with ticketing. Visitors would have a waiting room and washrooms in the new building.
He said after demolishing old structures, new buildings were being built in police stations of North Cantonment, South Cantonment, Garhi Shahu, Old Anarkali, Green Town, Township, Kot Lakhpat and Mughalpura.
In addition, buildings of three new sectors would also be constructed in three other city locations.
He said each sector would also have a parking lot for impounded vehicles and motorcycles. He said funds would be utilised from the lifter head after the orders of the Lahore High Court regarding the use of account for the welfare of wardens, and standard operating procedures issued by the Punjab inspector general to use money from the head.
He said a third-party evaluation would be carried out to ensure quality and transparency in the project.
(Daily Dawn)
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