ISLAMABAD: Infrastructure development goes a long way in easing the lives of citizens. For smooth urban life, consistent infrastructure development is very important, said Mayor of Islamabad and Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Sheikh Anser Aziz on Monday. He said this while chairing a meeting of the Market and Roads Maintenance Division-V. “Road infrastructure of the federal capital will be developed to meet the future traffic needs of the city. Concrete steps have been taken to ensure maintenance of the existing road infrastructure,” he said. The meeting was attended by senior officers of the authority. “All roads development and maintenance projects being carried out in the city should be completed well in time without compromising the quality of work,” he said. “The concerned departments should accelerate the pace of work so that the residents could be facilitated in better way,” the mayor said. During the meeting it was briefed that Roads Division-V had completed the rehabilitation of MR-II from NESCOM to IJP Road, Sector I-11. “A total of 95% work on construction of external infrastructure Sector H-10 has been completed while remaining work is being carried out at fast pace,” the meeting was informed. The meeting was further told that 80% road development work in Sector I-11/1, vacated from Katchi Abadi, had been completed while rest of the work would be completed with stipulated time. The meeting was further informed that during the month of May, rehabilitation of approach road from GT Road to Hajj Complex Sector I-14 had been also completed. During the meeting, it was further informed that the construction of VRs in Sector I-16 was in progress. “Around 95% work on the project has been completed while efforts are being made to complete the remaining work within given time frame,” the meeting was informed. Published in Daily Times, June 20th, 2017.