Wasa awaits soft loan for Rs14 bn sewerage project
National
April 20, 2021
LAHORE: The Punjab government on the request of Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) has asked the Economic Affairs Division for early processing of financial facility for the country’s first ever mega trenchless sewerage project worth Rs14 billion.
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has already committed a soft loan for laying a trenchless sewerage system from Larechs Colony to Gulshan-e-Ravi, Lahore. PC- I of the project was approved by ECNEC on 16 March, 2020 while pre-qualification of Project Management Consultant was completed in advance to save time.
The board approval by AIIB was expected in September, 2020, loan signing with AIIB was expected in October, 2020 and the award of work was expected by end of December, 2020. However, the project financing was delayed. Recently, Planning & Development Board Punjab wrote a letter (No. 4(46) ECA/P&D/20-I1) to the Economic Affairs Division, Islam
LAHORE: A man was killed in a house fire early on Sunday in Model Town.
His neighbours reported to the Rescue 1122 after noticing smoke and flames emitting from the house at about 6am.
Rescue firefighters found the man unresponsive in the burning house and pulled him out. He had suffered severe burn injuries on different parts of his body and was shifted to a nearby hospital where he could not survive. The deceased was identified as Arshad, 55. The rescuers managed to extinguish the fire in an hour or so.
Police handed over the body to his heirs after completing legal formalities.