LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif gave a briefing to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif about the low-cost Ashiyana Housing Scheme on Friday. The CM said that the project for providing houses to low-income people had started in Lahore and would be extended throughout Punjab.
He said that 26 sites have been identified for the scheme in various districts of the province. Shahbaz informed Nawaz that the housing project was a welfare scheme of the Punjab government, which would provide houses to poor people and directed the Punjab chief secretary to collect details of vacant lands of all government departments for the scheme and present a report within the next 10 days. The PML-N chief lauded the Punjab government’s project for providing shelter to the poor masses and said that the project be implemented expeditiously. He said that not only the elite class but all 170 million Pakistanis had a right over the country’s national resources.
He said that the Punjab government should select land in or near cities so that the common man could not face any difficulty. Nawaz said that planning be done for establishing small cities near the Motorway and provision of all facilities be ensured for checking the trend of migration to cities. Earlier, Punjab Land Development Company Chairman Sheikh Allauddin briefed the meeting about housing project’s implementation. He said that 50,000 people have obtained forms for the scheme in Lahore and in the first phase construction of model houses would soon be started.
