In this Aug file photo, Prime Minister Imran Khan launches the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project. APP
LAHORE: The Punjab government has excluded all existing industrial units and residential settlements from the land acquisition plan for the Ravi Riverfront Urban Development Project. However, the settlements within the riverbed will remain part of the plan.
“Following Prime Minister Imran Khan’s directions, the existing industrial units have been exempted from the area notified for Ravi Urban Development Project. These industries will now continue to function at their present places as usual and will not be relocated for this project. Moreover, the residential localities not falling in the course of the river will also not be acquired,” S.M. Imran, official spokesman for the Ravi Urban Development Authority (Ruda), disclosed this in a meeting with local industrialists at Mehmood Booti near Ring Road on Saturday.
Industrial units in Ravi Urban Project exempted from dislocation
Lahore
December 27, 2020
LAHORE : On the direction of Prime Minister Imran Khan all the existing industrial units have been exempted from the area notified for Ravi Urban Development Project.
These industries will now continue to function at their present places as usual and will not be relocated for the project. The residential localities which do not fall in the course of the river will also not be acquired.
Ravi Urban Development Authority Spokesman for SM Imran and Senior Member Board of Revenue, Punjab, Babar Hayat Tarar disclosed this during a meeting with the local industrialists in the Mehmood Booti area near Ring Road on Saturday. The two officers called on the industrialists on the direction of the prime minister. Local industrialists welcomed the prime minister s pro-people decision and expressed complete satisfaction over the guarantee given to them. They have thanked the PM and Punjab chief minister