GCU Old Ravians discusses bus terminal with CM Punjab

Lahore, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday assured the Old Ravians Union (ORU) that the Punjab government would discuss with the Government College University administration as well as the union about construction of metro bus service station near the university.

The chief minister gave the word during a meeting with to a delegation of the Old Ravians in the camp office at Minar-e-Pakistan. During the meeting, the ORU delegation explained Shahbaz of various matters and issues rising due to construction of bus station for the Metro Bus Service near the Government College University.

The delegation included Dr Khalid Manzoor Butt, Mian M Ahmed Cachharr and Zoraiz Lashari while Special Assistant to CM Zaeem Husain Qadri, Director General LDA Ahad Khan Cheema and Israr Saeed of Tepa were also present.

Talking to the Old Ravians, the CM said the Metro Bus Service was a welfare project in which billions of rupees have been invested. He said it would be safeguarded that the academic activities at the GCU were not disturbed by the project. He indicated that work had been started concurrently on the whole track of the metro bus for which the South Asia’s longest flyover was also going to be constructed.

Shahbaz said the Punjab government would cooperate to the GCU and promised that not only its cricket ground would be restored but an astonishing building would also be constructed. The chief minister had ordered the Traffic Engineering and Planning Agency (TEPA) and Lahore Development Authority (LDA) not to take a single inch of the 148-year-old educational institution for bus terminal without the Old Ravians and GCU authorities’ permission.

It further indicated that CM had also assured to release a grant of Rs100 million to the GCU. He also guaranteed a special grant for the extension of GCU’s only Girls Hostel where more than 300 students were residing.