Employment scheme: 4m people to be given jobs, says minister

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Excise and Taxation, Finance Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman said that under the chief minister’s employment scheme, 4 million people will be provided jobs during the current financial year. A subsidy of Rs10 billion would be given to farmers on DAP fertiliser as they are the backbone of the economy. Rehman said the Punjab government wanted to upgrade the growth rate of the province to 8 per cent, lifting 7 million people out of poverty. Additionally, Rehman said, 2 million people would be provided technical training. Specific objectives of programmes launched by the provincial and federal governments were to reduce the maternal mortality rate and increase proportion of deliveries attended by skilled attendants.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 18^th, 2014.

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