RAWALPINDI: Vice Chairman Parks and Horticulture Authority Malik Abid Hussain Sunday said the installation of decorative and electric light bulbs for the beautification of major highways including Murree Road are underway.

“We will make Rawalpindi an ideal model city in terms of natural green and eco-friendly,” said Abid.

He was talking to the public and local PTI officials during the visit to various union councils in the city and Cantt.

Malik Abid Hussain said that the basic work of making all the parks in the city natural green has been completed, he added.

Malik Abid Hussain said that the pots of more than one hundred types of flowers have been decorated on both sides of Murree Road and on the middle divider line. In addition to the installation of colourful lights under the overhead bridges and metro bus tracks, the city gates are also being decorated with paintings, he mentioned. He said that in addition to turn the city parks into natural green spots, Miawaki forests have also begun to grow on vacant lands around educational institutions and government buildings.