Pakistan Auditor time-honored file finds fiscal ...

In a recent record, Pakistan's Auditor widespread has printed monetary irregularities price over Rs 2.seventy seven billion in Peshawar's Bus rapid Transport (BRT) venture, considered as one of the vital choicest metro bus projects within the nation.

The AGP document mentioned that the changes made to the design of the mega-challenge have accelerated its can charge through Rs 17 billion (from Rs forty nine billion to Rs 66 billion).

The record has extra highlighted that "unauthorised payments" of Rs 17.7 million have been made to several officers together with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's extra chief secretary, from the venture Implementation Unit's fund.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's provincial minister Shaukat Yousafzai has refuted the record of any corruption within the BRT venture.

Ikhtiyar Wali, Pakistani Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N) spokesperson from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has demanded the accused to be delivered to justice and the BRT venture be dealt with with the aid of a third celebration.

This comes weeks after Pakistan's extremely good bus-based transit system confronted extreme criticism when one in all its buses broke down on the main corridor near the Abdara station leading to the social media clients questioning the country's bus-based mostly transit equipment and the Imran Khan-led administration.

earlier this yr, the BRT challenge in Peshawar city faced criticism through the people after the stations obtained flooded and witnessed water leakages all the way through heavy rains.

The BRT mission has been developed with the aid of a consortium led by using China Railway 21st Bureau group and it has witnessed several accidents in view that its inauguration on August 13.

The project, developed at a value of Rs 70 billion is a 27.5 kilometre-long hall music with 31 stations and seven feeder routes stretching 62km with 146 stops to facilitate hundreds of passengers every day.

source: Al Arabiya put up