Orange Line Metro Train Project gets the biggest fund in history of Punjab budget
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LAHORE: Punjab Government budget 2017-18 reveals the fact that the biggest development budget for a single Project has been the Orange Line metro project in Lahore.
The biggest development project in the history of Lahore, Orange Line Metro Train Project, has been allocated the largest amount of finance in the history of development projects.
Rs 93 billion has been allocated for the project in the development budget of Punjab for this year, which is Rs 8 billion more than the amount allocated last year.
No development project has ever been allocated such an amount from the budget. The fact that such a huge amount has been dedicated to this project shows the interest of the Punjab government in the completion of this project.
It also shows that this is the Punjab government star project, which they aim to cash on in the next general elections.
Around 70 percent of the development work has been completed on the 27 kilometre long metro train project. Out of the total distance of the train track, approximately 24 kilometres of the track will be elevated while around 1 kilometre will be underground.
The project will have 26 stations out of which Anarkali and Central Station will be underground. The endpoints of the Orange Line route will be Ali Town at Raiwind and Dera Gujran at GT Road.
