{"id":62339,"date":"2020-03-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62339"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:12:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T10:12:21","slug":"infrastructure-for-transporting-water-to-twin-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/infrastructure-for-transporting-water-to-twin-cities.html","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure development ordered for transporting 100 mn gallon water to twin cities: Minister Umar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Thursday said that the departments concerned have been directed to develop the infrastructure required to supply 100 million gallons of water to the residents of the twin cities, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/imc-dreads-water-crisis-islamabad-get-worse-summer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"IMC dreads water crisis in Islamabad will get worse this summer (opens in a new tab)\">IMC dreads water crisis in Islamabad will get worse this summer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the publication, he revealed that construction of Islamabad Metro is set to be completed during this month. He also said that support will be extended for K-IV and Karachi Circular Railway project as soon as possible. While the government is also working on Karachi\u2019s Lyari Expressway, Railway Freight Corridor and Northern Bypass projects, while work Green Line Bus Rapid Transport will be initiated in the current year, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cda-given-deadline-revise-islamabad-master-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"CDA given deadline to revise Islamabad Master Plan, water supply projects (opens in a new tab)\">CDA given deadline to revise Islamabad Master Plan, water supply projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said that a scheme is also under consideration to supply an additional 5 million gallons water to Islamabad and Rawalpindi, while a committee has been set up to investigate water theft of 2.5 million gallons to improve the water supply infrastructure. At the same time, project feasibility study on <a href=\"http:\/\/Water supply to twin cities; CDA to set up PMU for Ghazi Barotha project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ghazi Barotha project (opens in a new tab)\">Ghazi Barotha project<\/a> is underway \u2013 for which advertisements have been floated for hiring a consultant, he concluded. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Thursday said that the departments concerned have been directed to develop the infrastructure required to supply 100 million gallons of water to the residents of the twin cities, a news source reported. Read: IMC dreads water crisis in Islamabad will get worse this summer As per the publication, he revealed that construction of Islamabad Metro is set to be completed during this month. He also said that support will be extended for K-IV and Karachi Circular Railway project as soon as possible. While the government is also working on Karachi\u2019s Lyari Expressway, Railway Freight Corridor and Northern Bypass projects, while work Green Line Bus Rapid Transport will be initiated in the current year, he added. Read: CDA given deadline to revise Islamabad Master Plan, water supply projects The minister said that a scheme is also under consideration to supply an additional 5 million gallons water to Islamabad and Rawalpindi, while a committee has been set up to investigate water theft of 2.5 million gallons to improve the water supply infrastructure. At the same time, project feasibility study on Ghazi Barotha project is underway \u2013 for which advertisements have&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":62321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20385],"tags":[22053,22052],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-development-projects","8":"tag-islamabad-and-rawalpindi-water-supply-projects","9":"tag-water-crisi-in-islamabad","10":"cat-20385-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Infrastructure for transporting water to twin cities - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Thursday said that the departments concerned have been\" \/>\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\/infrastructure-for-transporting-water-to-twin-cities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Infrastructure for transporting water to twin cities - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Thursday said that the departments concerned have been\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/infrastructure-for-transporting-water-to-twin-cities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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