Rana Mashhood Ahmad visits Thokar Niaz Baig One Window Camp

Lahore: Provincial Minister for Education, Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan today visited Thokar Niaz Baig One Window Camp set up for payment of compensation of land and structure acquired for Orange Train Project. He gave compensation voucher of 12.80 crore to a woman effected due to Orange Line Train Route. He listened to the problems of people coming for compensation and directed LDA authorities to resolve problems of concerned persons.

He said that compensation is being paid easily to the owners of land coming in the way of train track through one window camps.
The Minister said that Chief Minister Punjab is determined to pay immediate compensation to the affected people and after setting up of four one window compensation camps in the city, duties have also been assigned to assembly members and ministers. He said that due to Orange Line Train Lahore will join the club of cities having best travelling facilities in the world. He said that construction work on first metro train project is speedily continuing.

He said that Punjab Chief Minister has given approval to best package of payment of compensation for land acquired for metro train. He said that the rate of compensation is double for payment of land of this project as compared to land of development projects completed earlier in the city and at many places, better compensation than market rates is being given for the properties. He said after traffic count survey, Orange Line Metro Train Route has been designed in such a way that minimum land should be acquired for it and a few citizens affected due to this project.

AC Raiwind Ali Shahzad and concerned officials of LDA were also present for processing the applications of the people. Members Assembly Saif ul Malook Khokhar and Syed Zaeem Hussain Qadri also visited the camp and helped to resolve problems of the people.