Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has announced Rs13 billion development package for Faisalabad.
While addressing exporters and traders in Faisalabad, on Wednesday, the chief minister said a host of facilities including roads, parks, sewerage and water supply schemes would be started under this package besides improving health and educational facilities to enhance the quality of life.
“We welcome Prime Minister Imran Khan to Faisalabad which is called 'the Manchester of Pakistan,' the CM added. Prime Minister Imran Khan has inaugurated a model police station and Kashmir underpass project.
The chief minister reiterated that composite development is the manifesto of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Punjab has taken the lead in creating ease of doing business. The business activities are going on in full swing in the province.
He said 12 cement factories were working in Punjab before the PTI government. The incumbent government has issued NOCs to five cement factories and 16 more factories would be issued no-objection certificates till December, he said. Similarly, the CM said the Punjab government has approved 13 special economic zones while notification of seven special economic zones has been issued by the federal government.
The CM said new model police stations are being established in different parts of the province and land for 101 police stations is also transferred to the police along with the provision of 600 new vehicles. The government has approved 10,000 recruitments in the police department, he added.
“The public problems will be solved and the development package is the right of the citizens which has been given to them by the PTI government,” the CM said.
“The new Pakistan is being formed and everyone will witness the making of a new and prosperous Pakistan,” he concluded.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 19th, 2020.
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