LAHORE: In a stunning display of engineering incompetence, the Lahore Kalma Chowk Underpass is currently under scrutiny as torrential downpours expose its massive drainage flaws.
The underpass was inaugurated a mere three months ago and was aimed to connect garden town and Liberty.
However, authorities are struggling to cope with the task of evacuating water from this vital underpass, which Commuters are left to navigate through waterlogged passages, raising serious concerns about the functionality and efficiency of the project.
Supposedly, the CBD Punjab managed to complete the ambitious Kalma Chowk Underpass and CBD Punjab Boulevard project within an astonishingly short span of five months.
Lahore Kalma Chowk Underpass at the Moment.
This was Inaugurated 3months back during PSL8. But seems like there is a massive drainage flaws in it. As authorities still not able to evacuate water from it. This underpass connecting garden town and liberty#Lahore #kalmachowk #rain pic.twitter.com/RwqvJOuxPS— Usman Khan (@usmann_khann) June 26, 2023
However, the alarming price tag of over 4 billion rupees raises serious doubts about the judicious utilization of funds, leaving many to question whether this hefty investment has gone down the drain, both literally and figuratively.
Interestingly, the New Rawal Dam Underpass in Islamabad paints a similar picture. Completed back in October of the previous year, this underpass has also fallen victim to unresolved drainage issues.
It seems that authorities are grappling with a recurring theme of inadequate planning and execution, resulting in costly oversights that compromise the functionality of these crucial infrastructure projects.
As Lahore’s Kalma Chowk Underpass struggles to cope with the aftermath of record-breaking torrential downpours and the New Rawal Dam Underpass in Islamabad faces its own set of challenges, authorities are now under increasing pressure to address these glaring flaws.
Citizens rightly demand accountability and effective solutions to ensure that taxpayer funds are not squandered on ill-conceived endeavors.
This type of issues is just another day for Karachities but this site is not going to cover that doesn’t it? But it will definitely cover all the cities eating up all it’s budget? No wonder all the money is being poured down the drain because it already happened at first.
The contractors who build are legally bound to fix any deficiencies within a stipulated period of the project completion, as such the contractor responsible is supposed to fix this.
Now the present CM and his team will have to face accountability in NAB cases soon in near future. Get ready please.
Mohsin Naqvi is responsible for this. They are doing corruption
Accountability will be from upward to downward like what the army did. Fix them responsibility, put them in jail for 25 years with all their assets confiscated, this will be a deterrent for all those involved in this type of incompetent activity
Jab baraish aata Hai, Sailab atti hai. Jab Sailab aati Hai, seedha underpass jati Hai.
It is so simple.
Seems the engineering team were high on drugs, even a layman has common sense that this will accumulate water but pakistani engineering is out of the world experience.
What a shame for the government departments and authorities who planned, approved, and executed these projects. Of course, accountability should be done.
Under the present system, no one will be held responsible, unless the contractors are from PTI.
The complete failure of the drainage systems at Lahore Kalma Chowk Underpass confirms the total incompetence of ALL engineers involved in this project, total shame on those involved, just imagine what Lahories have to put up with! Imagine what the international communities think! It would not surprise me if those involved in this project did not even have the engineering qualifications or know-how as to how such a project should be conceived and built!
Personally they should ALL be sacked!