SHEIKHUPURA, Nov 30: The government is making its all out efforts for the welfare of the masses and raising their living standard.

Punjab Governor Lt-Gen Khalid Maqbool (retired) said this on Friday during his visit here and Jandiala Sher Khan, some 13 kilometres from here.

He said that no negligence would be tolerated on the part of administration and police, saying “the government is determined to weed out terrorism from society”.

He hoped that all strata of society, including teachers, students, lawyers and traders, would play their due role for the development and prosperity of the country.

The governor said the local bodies system introduced by the present government would help resolve the people’s problems in a better way.

He asked district and tehsil Nazims to take steps in eliminating corruption from government departments.

Heads of 11 departments already working under the district Nazim had been directed by the governor to submit their monthly report to the district Nazim.

Defending the government’s Afghan policy, he said the government had taken a just stand by extending its cooperation to the international community.

Specialist doctors, he said, would be appointed in January next in every department of district hospitals adding that funds for the purpose were being received from abroad.

The district government would provide medicines worth Rs23.5 million to the deserving and poor people in the district, he said.

The provision of canal water at the tail-end and helping the farmers to install new tubewells were among the priorities of the government to uplift the agriculture sector in the Sheikhupura district.

He said the government was also taking various steps for the promotion of livestock to improve the economic condition of farmers.

Financial help would be provided to the district government for the upkeep and maintenance of Guru Nanak Gurdawara and other sacred places of Sikhs in Nankana Sahib.

The governor urged the local industrialists to set up treatment plants in their factories to control the harmful effects of the untreated effluent.

Meanwhile, the governor also inaugurated the by-pass on the Faisalabad Road constructed with an expenditure of Rs99 million near here.

He said the arrangements had been finalized to construct the Lahore-Faisalabad Road, costing billions of rupees.

The governor also paid a surprise visit to the local Excise and Taxation office and checked the record of property tax and motor branch.