SIALKOT, Oct 23: The people stranded on bus and wagon stands criticized the district government for the absence of public transport vehicles which were impounded for the chief minister’s visit here on Friday (today).
The EDOs (revenue) and DDOs (revenue) in Sialkot, Daska and Pasrur remained busy in impounding buses and wagons for transporting maximum people to the Sialkot Police Lines ground, the venue for the public meeting of the chief minister.
However, the District Nazim claimed that transporters would be paid for the use of their vehicles.
Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi will inaugurate a newly-constructed 150 beds Chaudhry Aslam Trust Hospital at Uchiyan Kharoliyan villages, Daska.
District Nazim Mian Naeem Javed said the chief minister would announce a special uplift package of Rs1 billion for Sialkot during his speech at the Police Lines ground.
He said the chief minister would also meet various delegations of traders and politicians at the Civil Rest House, Sialkot. The chief minister would also inaugurate the Sialkot hockey stadium, he added.
EDUCATION: The district government is spending Rs95 million for providing modern educational facilities in all schools and colleges of the Sialkot district.
This was stated by District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid while talking to newsmen here on Thursday.
He said the Punjab government had also released Rs160 million grant for the promotion of quality technical education in the district.
The district government, he said, had allocated a special fund of Rs2.1 million for scholarships to deserving students and the financial encouragement of teachers.
Mian Naeem said the district government had completed 19 schemes in the education sector under the Khushhal Pakistan Programme, 29 under the President Programme and 25 under the Social Action Programme during the last fiscal year.
He said the ESR programme would be completed within next three years with an expenditure of Rs49 million. As of now, the federal government had provided only Rs12.5 million to the district government, he said.
The district government had generated Rs1.6 million through its own resources besides completing 17 schemes under this programme, he added.