VEHARI, April 4: The government will allot 2.3 million acres to around 100,000 landless farmers and grant proprietary rights to 90,000 residents of kutcha abadis in the province,

This was stated by Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool while inaugurating the Jashn-i-Baharan ceremony at the Vehari Stadium on Thursday.

The governor distributed allotment certificates of 107-acre tract among 24 farmers.

He said the government would procure wheat at Rs300 per maund and the target might be enhanced up to three million tons. He provided gunny bags to growers, assuring them wheat purchasing centres would be set up at union councils.

Reiterating the significance of education, he announced a sum of Rs6.5 million would be spent on the construction of post graduate block at the Vehari Girls College and Rs2.5 million grant for the Vocational Training Institute, Vehari.

Mr Maqbool urged the masses not to elect those representatives in the coming elections who had looted public exchequer and betrayed them.