Rawalpindi: The Metro Bus Service in twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad once again suspended as employees were protesting over non-payment of salaries here on Monday. The protesters demanded.
RAWALPINDI: The ticketing staff of metro bus service between Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Monday observed a strike over non-payment of their three months’ salaries and closed the counters, creating problems for travellers.
They, however, opened ticketing counters in the evening after they were assured by the administration of a private company and Punjab Mass Transit Authority (PMA) to clear their dues as soon as possible. PMA has outsourced ticketing, sanitation, operational and security services to private companies.
Sources told Dawn that the private company, Inbox, which deals with ticket collecting services for Metro in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, did not get a payment of Rs70 million from PMA since the last two months and thus it failed to pay salaries to staff.
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LAHORE: Following fresh guidelines issued by the National Command Operation Centre revising lockdown restrictions in view of the apparent reduction in new Covid-19 cases, the Punjab Masstransit Authority has decided to resume operations of Metro Bus service in Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi from Sunday (today).
The Speedo bus operations on all feeder routes in Lahore and Multan will also be resumed from Sunday, while an official source said the Orange Line Metro Train operations are set to resume from Monday (tomorrow).
“According to a fresh notification, we have now no restrictions over resumption of the intra-city Metro and Speedo buses and the Orange Line train operations. We will resume Metro bus operations consisting of 157 articulated buses (64 in Lahore, 58 in Rawalpindi and 35 in Multan) from Sunday. The Speedo bus operations consisting of 300 buses (200 in Lahore and 100 in Multan) will also begin from Sunday,” the official explained while talking to Dawn on Saturda
Lahore Orange Line on NAB’s radar
Anti-corruption watchdog questions tax exemptions for $1.6b project
The Executive Committee of National Economic Council had approved the project at a cost of Rs165.22 billion in May 2015 including a foreign loan of Rs103.1 billion. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has launched a probe into $1.6 billion Lahore Orange Line Metro project and is questioning Rs20 billion worth of tax exemptions and rationale behind including the scheme in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) framework.
The Rawalpindi bureau of the anti-corruption watchdog has been verifying a complaint against the project, showed official documents.