CHAKWAL, Dec 14: Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has announced five marla residential scheme for the poor under which 6,000 plots would be provided to low income people.

He made the announcement while speaking at a public gathering at the Govt College for Boys here on Thursday.

The chief minister said the Punjab government would provide Rs500 million for all four tehsils of Chakwal for sewerage and drinking water projects. He also granted Rs18 million for the upgradation of rural health centres of the area.

Mr Elahi said a degree college would be set up at Lawa while Govt College for Women would be upgraded to postgraduate level. He said 15 bulldozers would also be provided to farmers.

He said Gen Pervez Musharraf would be elected as president in uniform to make the country more developed and prosperous. The country’s future development depends upon construction of water reservoirs including Kalabagh Dam. He said the PML-N had lost its roots in the masses and its role as a political party had finished.

Earlier, the chief minister inaugurated a hospital at Kot Sarang village. He said the Punjab government was introducing reforms in health sectors to provide better facilities to doctors in all 4,000 BHUs in the province.

He said doctors working in BHUs would be paid Rs25,000 instead of Rs10,000. All reforms in health sector would be completed in four months.

Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rashid Ahmed announced laying of railway line upto Chakwal on the occasion.

District Nazim Sardar Ghulam Abbas also addressed the gathering.—APP