Cabinet okays relief package, wheat policy

Procurement, supply of food grain to K-P given go-ahead

LAHORE:

Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz has stated that providing relief and offering hope to the people is the top priority of the government against the backdrop of a sagging economy and an environment of despair.

He was presiding over his maiden cabinet meeting that approved the CM's relief package for the public.

It endorsed Rs200 billion subsidy for providing 10kg flour bag at Rs490.

The meeting also approved supply of wheat to the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government as a gesture of inter-provincial harmony and to strengthen the bonds of national unity. The wheat release policy was endorsed and the cabinet allowed procurement of one million tons of wheat from PASSCO.

The constitution of the new board of Punjab Mass Transit Authority with Khwaja Ahmad Hasaan as vice-chairman was approved and ex-post facto approval of Ramazan Package-2022 was given along with approving the reconstitution of the cabinet standing committees for finance & development and legislation.

The CM congratulated the ministers and the cabinet expressed its resolve to further the mission of public service while moving the province forward.

The CM regretted that delay had occurred in the constitution of the cabinet because of hurdles. "If Almighty Allah wants us to serve the masses, then, no one could create any hindrance in it," he maintained.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 2^nd, 2022.