Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif Tuesday presided over a high-level meeting which reviewed the performance of Lahore Parking Company for providing parking facilities to the people. Punjab Chief Minister expressed dissatisfaction over the performance of Lahore Parking Company and said that it has failed in providing parking facilities to the citizens and performance of the company during the last three years was dissatisfactory. He said that delay in provision of facilities to the citizens is intolerable.
The CM expressed strong indignation over delay in construction of parking plazas and introduction of mechanical rotary parking system. He reprimanded the concerned officials and said it will not be tolerated that people should not be facilitated and the officials of parking company remain doing lip service. He said non-implementation on decisions is lamentable.
Shahbaz said that parking and traffic system are linked with each other. He said that traffic will flow smoothly due to best parking system. Non-provision of facilities to the people is dereliction of duty, he added. He said that non-forwarding meter parking system is also deplorable. The CM said that he is fighting a war for changing the obsolete system and will go to the last limit for changing it. Advisor Dr Umer Saif, Chairman Lahore Parking Company Hafiz Mian Muhammad Nauman, Secretary Local Government, Commissioner Lahore Division, Director General LDA, DCO Lahore and senior officials of Lahore Parking Company were present on the occasion.