LDA plans mega projects
LAHORE: Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has planned several mega projects here on Thursday.
Officials said LDA, under Chief Minister Usman Buzdar’s new Lahore Development Package, has planned three flyovers at Shahkam Chowk, Sheranwala Gate and Karim Block Crossing while an underpass was planned in front of Gulab Devi Hospital on Ferozpur Road.
They added that LDA sought applications for pre-qualification of contractors and engineering firms for construction till February 4, 2021. They were also asked to express interest for pre-qualification of consultant firms for Resident Supervision of construction work on three projects till February 12, 2021.
Ved Mehta An illustrious writer of the sub-continent
By News Desk| Updated: 16th January 2021 12:23 pm IST
Fakir Syed Aijazuddin
To Lahoris, Sheranwala is one of the twelve gates that led into the ancient walled city. To New Yorkers, it was the portal through which they were admitted into the mind of the gifted writer Ved Mehta.
Ved was born in Lahore in March 1934. He died in New York on 9 January 2021. In his benighted youth, Ved attended the then Emerson School of the Blind located near Sheranwala Gate. The scars from the callousness of insensitive teachers had healed by the time he migrated to India in 1947. The lesions on his psyche remained.
The writer is an author.
TO Lahoris, Sheranwala is one of the 12 gates that led into the ancient walled city. To New Yorkers, it was the portal through which they were admitted into the mind of the gifted writer Ved Mehta.
Ved was born in Lahore in March 1934. He died in New York on Jan 9, 2021. In his benighted youth, Ved attended the then Emerson School of the Blind located near Sheranwala Gate. The scars from the callousness of insensitive teachers had healed by the time he migrated to India in 1947. The lesions on his psyche remained.
Determined to do more with his life than threading cane chairs or playing a musical instrument, he moved to the United States at the age of 15. There, at Arkansas School for the Blind, in Little Rock, he learned to compensate for the loss of one of his senses by refining the other four.
Lack of funds mar cistern project
Lawrence Garden rainwater reservoir to cost more than the original projection
LAHORE:
The Lawrence Garden rainwater storage tank which was supposed to be complete in three months after its launch, still stands incomplete even after eight months of spadework, official sources have confirmed.
During the last monsoon season, the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) had even released water into the incomplete tank giving an impression that the project had been completed although the structure still lacks several components and is work-in-progress.
The contractor, who was hired to work on the Pakistan Tehreeke-Insaf (PTI) government s model rainwater harvesting pilot project, said he has stopped work owing to outstanding dues.
The Punjab government imposed ‘smart lockdown’ and sealed 13 localities of the walled city following the reports that these areas have become hotspot for the coronavirus due to fast spread of the infection. AFP/File
LAHORE: The Punjab government imposed ‘smart lockdown’ and sealed 13 localities of the walled city here following the reports that these areas have become hotspot for the coronavirus due to fast spread of the infection. Interestingly, these localities have roads and streets leading to the Minar-i-Pakistan lawns (now the Greater Iqbal Park) where the opposition alliance the Pakitan Democratic Movement (PDM) public meeting was scheduled for Dec 13.