LAHORE – Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Sunday presided over a meeting at the chief minister’s office to review the development programme for underdeveloped areas of southern Punjab and discuss development projects for the area in the current fiscal year.
Addressing the meeting, the chief minister said the government would work with a holistic strategy to provide basic facilities to people of remote areas as it is their right to have access to education, health, infrastructure and clean drinking water.
He said the PTI government would ensure that people of less developed areas get access to these facilities.
He said that maximum relief would be provided to people in the upcoming budget despite limited resources and welfare of the common man was top priority of the government.
He said the first budget of the PTI government would reflect real change and it would not set unrealistic targets like the previous governments.
He said that PTI government’s budget focused on common man and it would work for people.
He said that prosperity and development of the people of south Punjab is part of PTI manifesto and the coming budget would bring welfare for the people of south Punjab.
Also, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said that impact of natural disasters could be reduced by taking pre-emptive measures and state of the art technology needs to be used to reduce the damages and impact of natural calamities.
In his message on International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction, the chief minister said that the concerned departments should be imparted modern training and it is need of the hour to make disaster management authorities more robust and vibrant to cope with the damages of natural disasters.
He said that it is key responsibility of the PTI government to save people from natural disasters.