Saaf Pani Programme: Clean water right of every citizen, says Shehbaz

Says social welfare programme will be expanded across Punjab in phases.


Our Correspondent May 01, 2017
Says social welfare programme will be expanded across Punjab in phases. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE

LAHORE: Potable water is an important component of life and a megaproject has been initiated in Punjab to provide clean drinking water to the citizens, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Sunday while chairing a meeting to review progress on the Saaf Pani Programme.

He said the project of public welfare was directly linked to human health as polluted water has become a source of spreading diseases. “By learning lessons from the past mistakes, we have to move forward in a professional way because nothing is more important than the provision of clean drinking water to the masses.”

He said clean drinking water was the basic need and right of every citizen and for this, the Saaf Pani Programme will be expanded to all districts in different phases.

“In the first phase, Saaf Pani Programme has been initiated from South Punjab and there is a need for quality and speed work for the implementation of this programme in other districts of the province as well,” the CM remarked.

International Labour Day

Shehbaz said the day was a symbol of struggle and sacrifices of Chicago workers for their fundamental in 1886. “Labourers and workers play a key role in strengthening the national economy and targets of development cannot be achieved without prosperity, empowerment and due respect of the workers,” he said. “With the empowerment of workforce, the goals of development would be achieved soon.”

He said thousands of youth have been imparted training under the Skill Development Programme of the Punjab government. “Besides, 87,000 children of brick kiln workers have been enrolled in different government-sponsored schools for providing them free education,” he added.

Shehbaz said establishment of quality educational institutions for the children of labourers besides social security hospitals and labour colonies were a proof of labour-friendly policies of the Punjab government.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 1st, 2017.

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