OKARA: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the food department will procure four million tons of wheat across Punjab.

“The PML-N government has inaugurated two power projects and five others including Nandipur will be completed in the current year,” he told a huge gathering at Burj Ilyas farmhouse of party MNA Rao Muhammad Ajmal Khan after inaugurating the wheat harvesting on Saturday.

He said the prime minister was leaving no stone unturned to improve the energy situation. He blamed the PPP government for abandoning the all-important Nandipur power project, alleging that costly machinery being used for the project was stolen from the site.

The present government with the cooperation of China would complete this project which would add 100 megawatts to the national grid this year, he claimed.

Foundation stone laying ceremony of two projects of 680 megawatt would be held in Sahiwal and Kot Qasim (Karachi), he said.

The chief minister directed the revenue department to find a piece of land for the establishment of an agriculture university in Deepalpur.

He also announced reconstruction of a women’s degree college and establishment of a trauma centre at the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital besides granting Rs1 million for the Deepalpur Press Club. He opened the Rescue 1122 service in Renala Khurd.

Later, he flew to Shergarh Town on the invitation of MNA Syed Ashiq Hussain Kirmani, where he announced a project of sewerage and water-supply system.

He laid floral wreath at the shrine of Hazrat Dawood Bandagi Kirmani and offered ‘fateha’.