KHANEWAL, May 25: A majority of participants at a pre-budget seminar at Jinnah Library Hall on Saturday urged the district government to focus education allocations as its top priority in the upcoming annual budget.

As many as 53 per cent of the participants of the seminar voted for education, 20 per cent for health, 12 for communication, six for agriculture, five for sports and culture and four per cent for veterinary health issues.

Addressing the seminar organised in collaboration with USAID-funded ‘Pakistan Districts That Work’, District Nazim Sardar Ahmad Yar Hiraj claimed to have done a number of development works in the district during the last seven years.

He said the district government constructed a number of farm to market roads with the cost of Rs1 billion besides provision of necessary facilities in schools, electricity in villages, funding through citizen community boards for milk chillers and tubewells, establishing cardiac centre at DHQ Hospital and provision of ambulances to rural health centres.

District Coordination Officer Qazi Ashfaq appreciated the turnout of a large number of participants in the seminar and termed the same as participatory method for bringing change in society.