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| June 10, 2005 | Friday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 2, 1426 |
CM wants schemes completed on time
LAHORE, June 9: Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi said on Thursday that he wanted 100 per cent completion of all development schemes in Punjab during the next fiscal year, adding reorganization of the planning and development board had helped the government overcome delays in their execution. He was presiding over a meeting of the provincial cabinet which allowed presentation of the budget 2005-06 in the Punjab Assembly.
He said his government had the honour of presenting a record budget having a total outlay of Rs224 billion. No past government could provide that much resources for the prosperity and development of people, he claimed.
He said the only aim to provide unprecedented resources for education, agriculture and other social sectors was to improve the living standard of people and to create facilities for them. He said all ministers, secretaries and their departments would have to work hard for achieving the targets set in the budget.
The chief minister said besides education, the health sector had also been included in the priority list of the government in the budget. During the next year, a mega project of providing missing facilities in all hospitals and health centres would be launched, he said.
He said no health sector programme could give results without providing clean drinking water to the people. That was why a Rs7.50 billion project to provide drinking water in Bahawalpur, Multan, Muzaffargarh, Khanewal, Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur had been included in the budget.
Similarly, he said, projects of providing clean drinking water and laying sewer lines in Faisalabad, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Murree, Gujranwala and other cities had been prepared for the next fiscal year.
The chief minister said reorganization of the P&D had helped a great deal in overcoming delays in the execution of development projects.
Earlier, P&D Chairman Sibtain Fazle Haleem briefed the cabinet on the government’s Rs53 billion annual development programme 2005-06. He said the ADP was 54 per cent higher than that of the existing year.
Finance Secretary Salman Siddique presented the budget for an approval by the cabinet.
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