Pakistan, June 21 -- Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has set June 30 as the deadline for completion of all sewerage and drainage projects across the province and imposed a ban on leaving excavation work incomplete or roads open after digging.

Chairing a video-link review meeting here on Saturday, she said that 100 per cent transparency and 100 per cent quality were the defining features of her government's development model. She added that Rs80 billion had been saved through e-tendering in the Punjab Development Programme, the largest development initiative in the country's history.

The chief minister said public funds were a sacred trust and must be spent with utmost care and responsibility. She stressed that roads, streets a...