Equal oppurtunity: Youth being facilitated, says Shahbaz
"Billions of rupees are being spent on the welfare of the youth in the province," says CM Shahbaz Sharif.
LAHORE:
Billions of rupees are being spent on the welfare of the youth in the province, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday. Speaking to a delegation of assembly members, Sharif said hundreds of thousands of unemployed but talented young people were benefiting from the government’s employment generation programmes. “The green tractor scheme, laptop, self-employment scheme, provision of buses for colleges, solar panels and bio-gas pilot projects have been started for them,” he said. He said some of the other provinces were now following Punjab’s lead.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 24th, 2012.
Billions of rupees are being spent on the welfare of the youth in the province, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday. Speaking to a delegation of assembly members, Sharif said hundreds of thousands of unemployed but talented young people were benefiting from the government’s employment generation programmes. “The green tractor scheme, laptop, self-employment scheme, provision of buses for colleges, solar panels and bio-gas pilot projects have been started for them,” he said. He said some of the other provinces were now following Punjab’s lead.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 24th, 2012.