Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that credit for materialising the dream of the low-income people to have their own houses goes to Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) which has started the Aashiyana Housing Project in the province.
He was presiding over a meeting on the project at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat here on Tuesday while the coordination officers from Sargodha, Sahiwal, Faisalabad and Jehlum were present on the occasion. He said the construction work was underway on the first scheme at Saroba Attari in the provincial metropolis and balloting would be held on May 1st for the allotment of houses.
He further said that approval had already been granted for this project in Sargodha, Faisalabad, Sahiwal and Jehlum and construction work would be started in these districts in May. He directed officers concerned to spare no effort in ensuring timely and quality completion of this welfare project for the common man.
Earlier, Punjab Land Development Company Chairman Sheikh Alauddin gave a detailed briefing on the master plan, survey and other issues regarding Aashiyana housing project in different parts of the province.
DAANISH SCHOOLS A NEW ERA OF PROGRESS: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that Daanish schools will introduce a new era of progress in backward areas while extremism, illiteracy and poverty will also be eliminated. He said this while presiding over a meeting regarding Daanish schools on Tuesday and added that foundation stones of Daanish schools had been laid in DG Khan, Mianwali and Attock while in Rajanpur would soon be laid.
Senior advisor Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, Member National Assembly (MNA) Mir Dost Muhammad Mazari, Members Provincial Assembly (MNAs) Rana Muhammad Afzal, Sardar Atif Hussain Khan Mazari, Sardar Atif Hussain Khan Gorchani, chief secretary, Board of Revenue senior member, Dera Ghazi Khan commissioner and Daanish School System Managing Director were also present. The chief minister said the revolutionary project of Daanish schools had been started for the first time in the country’s history for providing modern educational facilities to the poorest students.
He added the project would not only help eliminate terrorism, poverty and ignorance but the dream of the students of backward areas to have quality education would also be realised. He said the establishment of information technology (IT) laboratories in more than four thousand schools of the province and the Punjab Educational Endowment Fund to help talented students continue their academic activities were unprecedented measures of the provincial government.