A Gift To The People: 50 Shaheed Benazir Bhutto townships

Zardari directed that 50 Shaheed Benazir Bhutto townships should be constructed across Sindh at a cost of Rs5 billion

RATODERO: President Asif Ali Zardari has directed that 50 Shaheed Benazir Bhutto townships should be constructed across Sindh at a cost of Rs5 billion. Two billion rupees have already been allocated in the Annual Development Programme 2011-12. These announcements were made at a Board of Revenue meeting at the DCO’s office in Larkana on Tuesday. Every township would consist of two thousand houses and each house would be of 120-sq metres. Fifty thousand houses would be built throughout Sindh and would be given to poor people.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 25^th, 2011.