Provincial Minister for Excise & Taxation Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman has said that Punjab government has allocated funds for development projects on equitable basis. He said that government is using all available resources for providing better healthcare facilities to the people and specialized institutes are being set up in the province so that state of the art healthcare facilities can be provided to the masses at local level. He said that treatment of hepatitis are costly in the country and liver transplant facilities are not available therefore, people having low income and less resources cannot afford the treatment of this curse. Punjab government is establishing a state of the art kidney and liver institute & research center with a cost of Rs.3 billion in Lahore. He said that Rs.1.41 billion attractive incentive package has been provided to the specialist doctors to serve at THQs and DHQs. He said that Rs.10.82 billion has been provided for the provision of free of cost medicines in public sector hospitals.
Talking to different delegations, Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman said that the knowledge-friendly policies of Chief Minister can be judged from the fact that he has allocated Rs. 310.2 billion for education sector which is 27 percent of the total amount of the budget. He said that the development budget for education sector will be utilized for setting up of computer labs in 990 high schools, providing missing facilities in 7550 schools, reconstruction of buildings of 4700 schools and opening of 500 new schools. He said that provision of Rs. 150 billion for the construction of farm to market roads will usher in agriculture revolution in the country.
Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman said that Punjab government has promoted comfortable traveling facility by launching metro project and eliminated disparity between common man and well-to-do people. He said that Orange Line Train will provide more traveling facilities to common man. He said that at present three lakh citizens are benefiting from Lahore and Pakistan metro bus service. He said that the volume of labour market near Lahore metro bus route has increased by 33 percent which is equal to about ten lakh additional persons. He said that 30 percent women i.e 90 thousand women have been provided the facility of transportation, employment, health and education. He said that students have been provided facility of reaching their educational institutions, labourers at their work and government employees to come to office.
Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman said that on the instructions of Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, several projects have been started in south Punjab for raising the living standard of people of less developed areas. He said that the biggest solar project Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park has been set up in Bahawalpur at a cost of Rs.150 billion while Saaf Pani programme has been launched with Rs.30 billion in eleven districts of south Punjab. He said that different projects including Multan metro project, Saaf Pani project, farm to market roads and Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park will change the destiny of people of south Punjab