ISLAMABAD – Orange Line Metro Train project is likely to be started fromJuly 30, 2019.
During the hearing of the case pertaining to OLMT, Chief Justice ofPakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar expressed resentment over delay in thecompletion of the project on which, the director said that the constructionwas stopped for about 22 months.
The top judge said that there are complaints about substandard workregarding the project. We should call chief minister of Punjab and financeminister in this regard, he suggested.
Subsequently, the court has ordered to inform till 2pm after holdingmeeting.
Earlier, mega train project had completed its first successful trial runinside the depot at Waran Gujran.——————————
In May 2014, Punjab government had signed a project with Chairman of theChinese National Development Reforms Commission regarding construction ofan Orange Line Train in Lahore so that the metropolis will depict a melangeof the traditional and the modern.
The train route will be 27.1 kilometer long, spread from Ali Town to ThokarNiaz Baig, from Multan Road to Scheme Mor, Chowburji, MAO College, MallRoad, Laxmi Chowk and Railway Station, from Garhi Shahu Bridge to GT Roadand UET and from Pakistan Mint to Dera Gojran.——————————
The Orange Line Train is said to be the common man’s ride that will movethrough places where people with low income and living standards arespending lives.
The original deadline for the project was December 25, 2017.