The chief minister laid the foundation stone of an industrial estate in Vehari that he said would be completed at a cost of Rs1.1 billion. PHOTO: NNI
The foundation stone of a yet another Daanish school was laid in Vehari on Wednesday.
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif presided over the groundbreaking ceremony of the Rs800 million-project in Tibba Sultanpur.
The chief minister also laid the foundation stone of an industrial estate in Vehari that he said would be completed at a cost of Rs1.1 billion. Still later, he inaugurated a project to upgrade the district headquarters hospital. The 125-bed hospital will become a 325-bed hospital once the project is complete.
This was followed by the inauguration of the Vehari campus of the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad. The sub-campus has been completed at a cost of Rs700 million. Work on the construction of a Burewala campus of the university also began on Wednesday after the chief minister laid its foundation stone.
The first of the three gymnasiums being established in the district was also inaugurated at Burewala.
The government had allocated Rs450 million for the three gymnasiums, the chief minister said.
Addressing the gathering at the inauguration of the industrial estate, Sharif said that 150,000 houses in the Punjab will shine “like stars” through the Ujala Scheme this year.
He said that his government had completed 1,100 development projects in the district at a cost of Rs14 billion.
He said funds had been allocated for each district separately and that funds for any city or district were not spent on another.
The chief minister announced a Rs500,000 grant for setting up a library at the Mailsi sub-district bar association.
He also announced propriety rights for residents of a kachi abadi (squatter settlement) in Chak 204/WB.
Sharif said that industrial estates were key to industrial development.
He said four industrial estates would be set up in each of the district in the Punjab. Landless peasants, he said, would be given free lands for agricultural development. Agriculture and industry went hand-in-hand so that this would help both the sectors, he said.
Lashing out at the federal government’s policies, the chief minister said that Rs60 billion allocated for the Nandipur project had gone missing from official records just like the project itself.
He said if elected, his Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz would rid the country of energy crises in two years.
Several PML-N parliamentarian, including MNA Tehmina Doultana, accompanied the chief minister.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 14th, 2013.
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