{"id":54120,"date":"2019-08-03T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=54120"},"modified":"2019-08-02T17:38:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T12:38:57","slug":"pm-stresses-transparency-meritocracy-lda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-stresses-transparency-meritocracy-lda.html","title":{"rendered":"PM stresses transparency, meritocracy in LDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has directed Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Vice Chairman Sheikh Muhammad Imran to introduce measures for ensuring merit-based appointments and transparency within the workings of the civic agency, a news source reported. He expressed his views on the matter during a meeting with several LDA representatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lda-orders-operations-of-all-illegal-housing-schemes-to-end-in-15-days.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LDA orders for operations of all illegal housing schemes to end in 15 days<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PM stated that there was a need to make the LDA free of corruption and political influence so that the general public could experience a real change under the rule of the incumbent government.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the LDA official briefed the PM about various projects being introduced by the civic agency. These included regulatory reforms, changes to by-laws, the <em>Insaf<\/em> <em>Portal<\/em> for registering public complaints, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/vertical-development-should-be-encouraged-by-all-stakeholders-lda-chief-town-planner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lahore\u2019s vertical expansion<\/a>; which includes the ongoing construction of high-rise buildings within the last one year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) has approved six development schemes costing PKR 14.107 billion. The authority gave the approval during its meeting for the current fiscal year (FY 2019-20).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pdwp-approves-three-development-schemes-worth-pkr-7-6-bn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PDWP approves three development schemes worth PKR 7.6 bn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The approved schemes included Project Readiness Financing of Punjab Water Resources Management (PC-II) at a cost of PKR 9919.02 million and Construction of River Training Works on Indus Rover for Protection of CPEC Hakla Bridge, Mianwali at a cost of PKR 2.7615 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has directed Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Vice Chairman Sheikh Muhammad Imran to introduce measures for ensuring merit-based appointments and transparency within the workings of the civic agency, a news source reported. He expressed his views on the matter during a meeting with several LDA representatives. Read:\u00a0LDA orders for operations of all illegal housing schemes to end in 15 days The PM stated that there was a need to make the LDA free of corruption and political influence so that the general public could experience a real change under the rule of the incumbent government. In response, the LDA official briefed the PM about various projects being introduced by the civic agency. These included regulatory reforms, changes to by-laws, the Insaf Portal for registering public complaints, and Lahore\u2019s vertical expansion; which includes the ongoing construction of high-rise buildings within the last one year. Meanwhile, the Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) has approved six development schemes costing PKR 14.107 billion. The authority gave the approval during its meeting for the current fiscal year (FY 2019-20). Read:\u00a0PDWP approves three development schemes worth PKR 7.6 bn The approved schemes included Project Readiness Financing of Punjab Water Resources Management&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":44055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12468],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-pm-stresses-transparency-meritocracy-in-lda"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PM stresses transparency, meritocracy in LDA - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has directed Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Vice Chairman Sheikh Muhammad Imran to introduce measures for\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-stresses-transparency-meritocracy-lda.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM stresses transparency, meritocracy in LDA - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan has directed Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Vice Chairman Sheikh Muhammad Imran to introduce measures for\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-stresses-transparency-meritocracy-lda.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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