LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has decided to further relax the rules and regulations to encourage the construction of the multi-storey buildings. The Chief Minister directed the LDA to take measures to ensure fire-fighting equipment and trained staff, and all safety arrangement of the international standards. The chief minister expressed his anger over not completion of patchwork on some of roads of Lahore. Usman Buzdar said the LDA vice chairman is being made more empowered so that the authority discharge daily affairs itself and it does not need visiting the chief minister for petty affairs. He said the LDA under the leadership of the vice chairman should take decisions and measure, within legal limits, to give more civic facilities to the citizens.

Source: Pakistan Today May 04, 2019 15:26 UTC