ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), eliminating the audit observations on Lahore-Abdul Hakeem Motorway section, has commended the performance of National Highway Authority (NHA) officers for maintaining transparency and before time completion of the project.
The meeting of the PAC was held on Wednesday under chairmanship of Syed Khurshid Shah in committee room of the National Assembly.
In the meeting, audit observations raised by the DG Audit Works were presented before the committee regarding 230-km Lahore-Abdul section of eastern corridor of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is going to be inaugurated before time in May 2018.
NHA Chairman Jawwad Rafique Malik gave detailed replies to the audit observations and presented a complete record to the committee. The PAC eliminated the audit observations and declared the contract as per rules. Jawwad Rafique Malik told the committee that the authority saved Rs 122 in two contracts in 2015-16.
Published in Daily Times, March 29th 2018.
