CM announces uplift projects for Jahanian

Reiterates resolve to work jointly with PTI

LAHORE:

Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has again vowed to work together with the PTI for the welfare of the people.

Addressing a rally in Jahanian, he said he would visit the area again before the. elections and ask the people if satisfactory work had been done for them.

The chief minister announced ownership rights for the residents of all informal settlements in Jahanian.

He said the Jahanian Tehsil Headquarters Hospital would be upgraded from 40 to 150 beds with a blood bank and labour room.

A trauma centre will be established in Jahanian and Bahauddin Zakria University Campuses will be set up in Kacha Khoo and Jahanian. The local girls degree college will be upgraded and a children's hospital will also be established in Jahanian.

The chief minister said the Speedo bus service would be expanded up to Jahanian and Thatta Sadiqabad. Eleven basic health units of Jahanian will be provided ambulances and the Rescue 1122 motorbike service will be launched in the city. The government will allocate Rs200 million for the sewerage system in Thatta Sadiqabad.

He announced that 100km carpeted roads will be constructed in the constituencies PP-210 and PP-209, while 50 water filtration plants will be installed in NA-147. An MRI machine will be installed in the Khanewal District Headquarters Hospital.

He said female students would be awarded double scholarship in South Punjab. Free solar pumps will given to every farmer holding less than 12.5 acres of land.

Earlier, CM Pervaiz Elahi laid the foundation stone of the construction and extension of a road from bridge 114-10/R on Multan-Vehari road to bridge 132-10/R on the Multan-Dunyapur road. The total cost on the construction will amount to Rs714 million. It will facilitate the transportation of vegetables from the fields to the markets.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 24^th, 2022.