Rehabilitation of 10 Gujrat roads approved by Punjab government.

GUJRAT -- A six-kilometre long portion of Gujrat-Jalalpur Jattan Road up to the University of Gujrat's Hafiz Hayat campus Road will be rehabilitated at a cost of Rs312 million.

Earlier, a five-kilometre portion right from Jalalpur Jattan city to UoG Road had been dualised and reconstructed by the federal government's funds for PML-Q MNA Hussain Elahi's constituency in 2021.

The rehabilitation of 10 main roads, mainly in the rural areas of Gujrat, has been approved by the Punjab government. No road infrastructure scheme has been approved for Gujrat city in the next fiscal year's development budget.

Official sources said most of the Rs500 uplift schemes proposed by each PML-N lawmaker and former ticket-holder could also not become part of next year's Annual Development Program (ADP) since the proposals were late and the ADP had been finalised.

Six-kilometre road portion leading to UoG to be mended

The schemes, the officials said, might later be made part of the ADP as supplementary grant. Few road infrastructure schemes proposed by Gujrat's lone PML-N MNA Abid Raza Kotla, prime minister's adviser Qamar Zaman Kaira and ex-MPA Mian Tariq Mehmood Dinga had been approved, they said.

The officials said the rehabilitation of six-kilometre portion of Gujrat-Jalalpur Jattan Road and three other roads had actually been proposed by PML-Q MNA Moonis Elahi much before the resignation of then Punjab chief minister Usman Buzdar. Former PML-N lawmakers from Gujrat too had favoured the...