Staff Reporter
Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) on the directives of Advisor to the Chief Minister Punjab on Horticulture and Tourism, Asif Mehmood has accelerated the pace of work on the projects launched under Glorious Rawalpindi program.
According to a PHA spokesperson, the Advisor while chairing a meeting of the Task Force on Glorious Rawalpindi had instructed the PHA officers to complete ongoing projects within shortest possible time frame.
The spokesperson informed that the meeting also discussed up-gradation of college and school grounds. The PHA was also directed to identify heritage buildings. The Advisor ordered the officers to initiate project to set up a Food Street in the city on priority basis.
It was decided in the meeting that the next project of the Task Force would be uplift and beautification project of Chandani Chowk to Marrier Chowk area besides efforts to remove encroachments particularly from public land to enhance the beauty of the city.
The PHA had also launched a project to upgrade its parks, beautification of footpaths, roads and green belts. She said, PHA had also geared up the ongoing plantation campaign.
In this connection, the PHA was organising various tree plantation events in which various dignitaries and parliamentarians were planting saplings in different localities of Rawalpindi city, she said.
