PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Perveez Khattak has said thatthe Chief Executive Officer deliberately delay work on Bus Rapid TransitService (BRT) and due to the delay the project will take two more monthsfor the completion.
This he said on Sunday at Arbab Niaz Stadium Peshawar while talking toMedia. The CM said that he directed and advice many time to the CEO tospeedy the work on the project but he was delay again and again work on theproject, adding that because of the delay the Buses will arrive late forthe project and because of that the project will be completed in eightmonths.
He further added that in Pubjab for the structure of BRT Rs. 29 billionrupees has been spend while for Peshawar BRT service Rs. 29 billion hasspending on the project, adding that Six billion rupees has been allocatedfor the Buses to be purchased for the project while seven billion rupeeshas been allocated to be constructed Parking Plaza for the project.
Perveez Khattak said that for the last two years they were waiting for theland of Railway but the Federal government were play delay tactics with theprovincial government for the last two years while two years has beensurfed for taking money from Asian Development Bank.
He further added that the project was to be completed in six month butbecause of the CEO and other hurdles including the Railway refuse to notgive land to the provincial government now the project will be completed ineight months, adding that although two month will further take time on theproject but eight month is also a record time to be completed such a megaproject.
The Chief Minister defended the decision of sacking the CEO of Peshawar BusRapid Transit for failing to meet the deadline saying the concernedofficial ignored repeated reminders by the provincial authorities.