KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Information, Transport and Mass Transit Sharjeel Memon directed to expedite work on BRT Red Line project to do away with difficulties being faced by citizens due to construction work at earliest.

Presiding over review meeting of Board of Directors of Trans Karachi progress on BRT Red Line project came under discussion. Secretary Transport Abdul Haleem Sheikh, Justice (retd) Shaiq Usmani, Rukhsana Rahoja, Shumail Sikandar, Iqbal Lalani and Administrator Karachi Dr. Saifur Rehman while Vice Chancellor NED University Professor Sarosh Hashmat Lodhi participated through video link.

Sharjeel said that Karachi Metropolitan Corporation handed over land to Trans Karachi for setting up bus depot at Alladin Park while construction of bus depot and bio-gas plant for project would also start soon. He said that Pakistan’s first electric bus service has been started in Karachi while BRT Red Line is Pakistan’s first bio-gas project. He said that improving public transport system in province was vision of PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Transport Department was working day and night on transport projects across Sindh including Karachi to fulfill vision of PPP Chairman.

Published in The Daily National Courier, January, 20 2023

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