Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar chaired the 9th meeting of the public-private partnership policy & monitoring board. The meeting gave in-principle approval to technical and financial bids for the O&M project, and procurement and installation of water meters in Lahore. The CM directed to take steps to proceed further adding that other PPP mode projects should be given final shape without delay. The meeting also endorsed the decisions made in the 7th and 8th meetings. Provincial ministers Hashim Jawan Bakht and Asad Khokhar, MPAs Mian Shafi Muhammad and Khadija Umar, chief secretary, chairman P&D, housing secretary, former SCCI president, CEO Punjab Public Private Partnership authority and others attended the meeting.
