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Airport terminal

Governor briefed on progress of work

Recorder Report

Lahore: Project Director of the Lahore Airport new terminal building Brig. Tauseef-uz-Zaman gave a detailed briefing to Punjab Governor Lt-Gen (Retd) Mohammad Safdar on the progress of work on the terminal, at Governor's House on Monday.

The governor directed that keeping in view the inadequacy of resources, every effort should be made to curtail the expenditure without compromising on the warranted facilities and quality of construction work.

He was informed that a target of Rs. 1 billion saving has been set out of the total cost of 10.32 billion.

At present, the governor was apprised, the construction work was going on at its full swing and 40 percent work had been completed, for which a payment of Rs. 3.9 billion had been made to the contractors.

Director General Civil Aviation Air Marshal Ali-ud-Din, Chairman P&D Board Punjab Tariq Sultan, MD Nespak, DG LDA, Commissioner Lahore division and other high officials were also present on the occasion.