CDA ready to build Ring Road portion falling in its limits, RDA told.

Byline: Kashif Abbasi

ISLAMABAD -- City managers of twin cities held a meeting about the Rawalpindi Ring Road project after Prime Minister Imran Khan directed the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to construct an interchange and a portion of the road falling in the jurisdiction of the capital.Chief Commissioner Islamabad Amer Ali Ahmed, Commissioner Rawalpindi Mohammad Mehmood, Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) Director General Abdul Stattar Isani and others attended the meeting on Tuesday.

The Ring Road, which starts at Rawat and terminates at Sangjani, is a project of the Punjab government. The provincial government also wants to construct a two km road and an interchange at Sangjani that falls in the limits of Islamabad. However, the CDA has been stating that it will construct the portion of the road and the interchange in its limits.

Sources in the CDA said there was no logic behind the demand of the Punjab government to carry out construction work in the limits of...