LAHORE: Expressing reservations over bidding process of the Lahore Metro Bus project, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Political Communication Dr Shahbaz Gill said on Wednesday that this project was awarded by Shahbaz Sharif government to a chosen single foreign bidder at US $3.80 per km, in 2012 while no other local or foreign company was invited to bid.

While addressing a press conference along with PTI Central Punjab President Ijaz Chaudhry here at the Governor’s House, he said the award of this project without fair competition was a dishonest practice with waste of public tax money.

He said that the PTI was not against Metro Bus but it had opposed the process, as Shahbaz Sharif awarded the contract to a foreign company of his choice to run 45 buses fleet under dubious circumstances. On the other hand, he said the PTI govt had awarded the same project in US $1.86 per k.m. in 2020 and saved 1.94 dollars per km.

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