‘Welfare schemes will be completed on time’

CM announces various development, upgradation projects for Sahiwal

LAHORE:

The public welfare schemes would be completed on time while making no compromise on quality, said Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Sardar Usman Buzdar while announcing various development and up gradation projects for Sahiwal during his visit to the city on Friday.

Different delegations comprising assembly members, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ticket-holders, lawyers, traders, industrialists and party workers also called on Buzdar and apprised him about their problems.

The CM assured them of an early solution and said that he was monitoring progress on development projects by visiting different cities, as per a handout issued.

He announced connecting Sahiwal with motorway at Samundri Interchange through a link road.

He was also briefed on the early completion of Sahiwal Link Road along with the provision of funds on priority.

The CM announced the upgradation of DHQ Hospital Sahiwal and said the hospitals and medical colleges would be provided additional funds for better healthcare facilities.

He also ordered the early repair and maintenance of city roads as civic amenities improvement projects would be completed with foreign collaboration.

The minister also spoke about Girls Degree College for Kassowal and instructed to consider the possibility of linking Chichawatni with the motorway.

He further stated about division level colonies for journalists and lawyers and added that genuine problems of the legal fraternity would be solved.

“Similarly, traders and industrialists would be facilitated and price control authority would be set up to stabilise the prices of essential items,” he said.

Buzdar highlighted that the PTI government was rectifying misdeeds of the past regimes. He vowed to transform the system and said the incumbent government would complete its five-year term.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 29^th, 2020.