MIRPURKHAS: Sindh Minister for Transport, Information, Excise and Taxation Sharjeel Inam Memon said after inaugurating People’s Bus Service here on Saturday that similar service will be launched in all the remaining cities of the province to provide inexpensive travel facility to masses without any discrimination.

He said at the inauguration ceremony for the bus service held at Gama Stadium that yellow and orange intercity bus services would also be launched in the province this year to bring all the cities closer.

He said that the transport service was part of 10-point agenda, inspired by the vision of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, to help bring a revolution of progress in the province.

He said that Pakistan Peoples Party had already introduced Benazir Income Support Program, which ensured steady provision of financial support to the downtrodden. Besides, he said, the government was building 2.1 million houses for flood-hit people in the province.

Mirpurkhas Mayor Abdul Rauf Ghori urged the provincial government to also launch Pink Bus Service to facilitate women’s travel between Mirpurkhas and Hyderabad in minimal fair. A full-fledged university in public sector be established in Mirpurkhas to provide higher education to youth of the division at their doorstep, he said.

Earlier, the minister cut ribbon to formally inaugurate the bus service.

The ceremony was also attended by deputy mayor Sumera Baloch, former MPA Nusrat Sultana Khowaja, incumbent MPA Hari Ram, Mirpurkhas DIG Javed Jiskani, Mirpu-rkhas Commissioner Faisal Ahmed Uqaili, additional commissioner-I Dr Ali Nawaz Bhoot, PPP office-bearers and workers and social activists.

Published in Dawn, April 21st, 2024