HAFIZABAD – Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Hafizabad chapter President Malik Fayyaz Ahmad Awan has said that the government is committed to raising the living standard of the people. He was addressing a ceremony organised to inaugurate the Kutchery Road’s widening project that would be completed at a cost of Rs 18 million in three months. Former parliamentary secretary and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Mian Afzal Hussain Tarar, Hafizabad District Coordination Officer Muhammad Asif and Hafizabad Press Club General Secretary Amar Sohail Mughal also addressed the ceremony. Malik Fayyaz Ahmad Awan said the Punjab government had executed construction work on 70 various development schemes at a cost of Rs 250 million under the Chief Minister’s Special Development Package.
He added that coordination among the elected representatives of PPP and PML-N had provided the people with basic needs of life without any discrimination. He said the federal government had gifted a passport office to Hafizabad for issuing passports to the people at local level and it would start functioning from 26th of this month. Mian Afzal Tarar said the Kutchery Road project could not be completed without traders’ cooperation.
TRAIN SERVICE SUSPENSION IRKS PASSENGERS: Thousands of passengers are facing hardships owing to the suspension of train service on Faisalabad-Wazirabad junction.
At least five trains were halted and their operation was suspended for lack of diesel while thousands of passengers had to stay at the platforms of Hafizabad, Sukheki, Alipur Chattha and Wazirabad while waiting for their trains. The passengers expressed their anger and resentment against the suspension of the train service.
PUNJAB GOVT SPENDS RS 5B ON SASTI ROTI: Gujranwala Divisional Commissioner Saeed Iqbal Wahla has said the Punjab government is taking measures to provide relief to the masses and spending Rs five billion to provide Sasti Roti for the poor across the province. He said this while inaugurating a mechanical tandoor at Kassoki Road Hafizabad. He further said this mechanical tandoor had a capacity of baking 1,000 rotis per hour. He said mechanical tandoors were being installed at all the six districts of Gujranwala for providing roti to the masses at the rate of Rs 2. The commissioner also inaugurated Kitchen Garden Project in the district complex and stressed the people to benefit from this programme to grow vegetables in the lawns of their houses.
He said this project would help people decrease their kitchen expenditures. He added the officials in the agriculture department would provide technical assistance to the people at their doorsteps. Earlier, addressing the inaugural ceremony of the computerised registration deeds project, he said eradicating corruption from the official institutions was the top priority of the Punjab government and added the establishment of the computerised deeds registration centres was a step to achieve the goal of corruption-free Punjab.
