CM Maryam orders buses for rural women

"A modern transport system is also the right of women living in villages," said Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif while directing the authorities concerned to prepare the province's first transport solution plan for women.

She sought a comprehensive plan for offering transport services to rural women and directed the authorities to start a bus service from every rural tehsil to district headquarters.

The chief minister also sought an inter-village transport plan.

She said, "Lack of a proper transport system is extremely painful for rural women. It is very sad to see rural women traveling in public transport in uncomfortable conditions.

The provision of modern transport system will add to the confidence of rural women."

Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz said, "Students and sick women will now have ease of transportation."

She reviewed a proposal to start in phases a mass transit system in remote districts using 25 buses, and directed the relevant authorities to take immediate steps to provide subsidy to women passengers in the mass transit system.