Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday addressed a ceremony held at the Aiwan-e-Iqbal. Detailing the achievements of the provincial government, he said that the Punjab Education Endowment fund’s budget had been increased from Rs 2 billion to Rs 20 billion, allowing 130,000 poor families from around the country, not just Punjab, to benefit from the project.
He said that the PM’s health insurance scheme had been begun in four districts of Punjab, and would be expanded to cover the whole province at an expense of Rs 12 billion.
The chief minister mentioned a woman who was able to obtain an interest free loan of Rs 15000 to establish an academy and said that if that woman had gotten a loan from a bank and was unable to return it, she would have had an FIR lodged against her. Fortunately, it did not come to that.
He said that the PM’s health insurance scheme had been begun in four districts of Punjab and would cover the whole province by the end of the year. The Punjab government will spend Rs 12 billion for this scheme to provide quality medical health facilities to 8 million people, Shehbaz Sharif said.