LAHORE:The Orange Line Metro Train Project’s (OMT) 56% of the civil work has been so far been completed – while the progress on its Grand Trunk Road to Chouburji was over 70% done.
This was informed during the weekly progress review meeting of the steering committee of the project – which was presided over by Lahore Commissioner Abdullah Khan Sunbal on Wednesday.
National Engineering Services Pakistan (NESPAK) General Manager Salman Hafeez told the meeting that 207 U-tub girders had so far been precast out of which 158 had been launched for construction of 40 feet elevated track for the train along package one.
The construction work of 1.7 Kilometres long portion of the track was also underway in areas which were outside the scope of restraining order and work on the under-ground Anarkali station of the train was in full swing besides boring for the tunnel for passing the train, he said.
The meeting was apprised that a new 13 Km long storm water drain, starting from Haji Camp at Nichelson Road – which leads to the river Ravi via Lakshmi Chow, Chouburji and other areas – will be constructed at a cost of Rs 2.4 billion and for preparing its design, a joint visit of the utility services agencies and other departments concerned will be carried out on Saturday.
Furthermore, he said that the work on all the 11 elevated station of the train was being executed with full momentum and construction of the piles, pile caps and pears for the stations had been completed. Gray structure of four of the eleven stations will be handed over to CR-NORINCO – a Chinese company – in December for carrying out electrical and mechanical works while the remaining seven stations will be entrusted to other Chinese contractors in January 2017.
Punjab Assembly Member (MPA) Chaudhry Shahbaz Ahmad, Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Chief Engineer Asrar Saeed, Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency (TEPA) Chief Engineer Saifur Rehman and representatives of Punjab Mass Transit Authority, NESPAK, Sui Gas, PTCL, and other relevant departments besides CR-NORINCO and China Engineering consultants attended the meeting.
