LAHORE, April 6: Punjab Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi will start distribution of ownership deeds among 3,480 landless farmers in the province in the near future.

Disclosing this at a meeting of the Board of Revenue here on Thursday to review arrangements for distribution of ownership deeds, Punjab Colonies Minister Mian Manazar Ali Ranjha said every farmer would be given ownership of 12.5 acres under the Land for Landless Farmers’ Scheme.

He said the ownership deeds were ready and he would soon request the chief minister to sanction the schedule for distribution.

He said an ownership deed distribution ceremony would be held in Bahawalpur and another in Sargodha. The government would also arrange bank loans for the farmers for the purchase of agricultural implements and inputs for starting cultivation of the land to be allotted to them. —Reporter