Attock to get state of the art Gymkhana soon: says Commissioner

ATTOCK: Commissioner Rawalpindi Liaquat Ali Chattha has said that efforts are initiated to establish modern and state of the art Gymkhana in district Attock to provide better recreational facilities to the natives of the area. He was talking to newsmen after attending a briefing regarding the project of establishing a Gymkhana in Attock on Friday. He was accompanied by Additional Commissioner Revenue Rawalpindi Kanza Murtaza, Additional Commissioner Rawalpindi Ch Abdul Majid, Deputy Commissioner Rao Atif Raza and other administrative officers. He said that the facility would be established on 47 kanals of land while it would be state of the art indoor and outdoor sports facilities including Badminton, squash, tennis as well as riding club. He said that the facility would have a library, swimming pool besides joy land for kids. He added the Gymkhana would not only provide better recreational facilities to the government officials and their families of the district but also would help promote local culture and social norms. Mr Chatta has said that earlier last year serving as Commissioner Dera Ghazi Khan he revived the over-a-century old local officers’ club as Gymkhana Club while the same projects successfully initiated in other districts especially Faisalabad, Sargodha and Gujrat. On this occasion, he also performed the ground breaking ceremony of the Gymkhana.
Earlier, presiding over the meeting regarding development schemes, Commissioner Rawalpindi was informed that work on 21 schemes is underway across the district at a cost of Rs 27527.965 million in the district. He was informed that among them a sum of Rs10233.957 million are being spent on 26 schemes of highways, Rs2487.363 million on 22 schemes of buildings, Rs1426.304 million on seven public health schemes and Rs135 million on two local government schemes.
Speaking on this occasion, Mr Chattha stressed for effective steps should be taken to complete all development projects on time and quality should be ensured. He was of the view that the senior officers should take ownership of the work of the development projects and supervise them, he said. He instructed the officers to take the local community of the place where there was a public project into confidence and work with their cooperation. He said that the government would not let the cost go beyond the fixed limit by controlling the expenditures. On this occasion, he also encouraged the best performing officers especially deputy Commissioner Rao Atif Raza and deputy director information Shahzad Niaz Khokar.
Later Commissioner Rawalpindi Liaquat Ali Chattha also attended the Nambardar (village elders) Convention at District Council Hall on the occasion of his visit to Attock. Speaking on the occasion, he said that nambardars occupy an important position in the revenue department and are highly respected. The doors of the commissioner’s office are always open for them. The nambardars submitted their demands to the Commissioner Rawalpindi on which they were assured that their demands would be met within the next one month.
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Commissioner Rawalpindi Liaquat Ali Chattha being briefed on the proposed model of Gymkhana during his visit to Attock on Friday.