• Package features restoration of farmland, construction of dam, motorway, gas & power supply
• Sindh urged to reconsider cancellation of NOC for island project
SUKKUR: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday unveiled a historic development package worth Rs446 billion to develop backward areas of PPP-led Sindh through power supply, irrigation, sports and communication projects.
The package features restoration of 200,000 acres of agricultural land, upgradation of 14 passports offices, construction of Nai Gaj Dam to irrigate around 28,800 acres, 306-kilometre Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway, gas supply to 160 villages and annual 30,000 new power connections in the neglected districts.
The prime minister, while addressing a ceremony to hand over business loan cheques among entitled youths here, said proposed projects would start getting shape within a month as their feasibility studies had already been completed.
Top Story
April 17, 2021
SUKKUR: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday announced a massive development package worth Rs446 billion for 14 under-developed districts of Sindh, saying the effects of the investment would be visible within a month.
While addressing a ceremony in connection with the government s flagship Kamyab Jawan Programme at the Sukkur IBA University, the prime minister said he was pleased to be visiting interior Sindh and added that as he was fighting the biggest mafias in Punjab, he could not focus on Sindh.
Federal Ministers Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Dr Fehmida Mirza, Ali Haider Zaidi, Asad Umar and Muhammad Mian Soomro, Governor Sindh Imran Ismail, Special Assistants to PM Dr Sania Nishtar and Usman Dar, Senator Saif Abro, Haleem Adil Shaikh, Mobin Jatoi and Syed Tahir Shah were also present on the occasion.
4 outlets fined for deducting amount from Ehsaas funds
Peshawar
April 17, 2021
MANSEHRA: The tehsil administration has fined four outlets for receiving gratifications from deserving women in their payments of Ehsaas Emergency Cash Programme in Oghi on Friday.
Led by the Assistant Commissioner Usman Ali, a team of different departments, including police, raided various shops and fined four of them Rs10,000 each for allegedly receiving gratifications from the beneficiaries.
The assistant commissioner also warned many others, saying that they should not receive a single penny from Ehsaas programme’s charity, which he said, was meant for deserving families only. “I would never tolerate any deduction from the disbursement of the Ehsaas programme and those found involved in such illegal practices would be taken to task,” Usman warned while speaking to retailers in the city and its suburbs. The deserving women had appealed to the assistant commissioner, complaining that some of
• Package features restoration of farmland, construction of dam, motorway, gas & power supply
• Sindh urged to reconsider cancellation of NOC for island project
SUKKUR: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday unveiled a historic development package worth Rs446 billion to develop backward areas of PPP-led Sindh through power supply, irrigation, sports and communication projects.
The package features restoration of 200,000 acres of agricultural land, upgradation of 14 passports offices, construction of Nai Gaj Dam to irrigate around 28,800 acres, 306-kilometre Sukkur-Hyderabad Motorway, gas supply to 160 villages and annual 30,000 new power connections in the neglected districts.
The prime minister, while addressing a ceremony to hand over business loan cheques among entitled youths here, said proposed projects would start getting shape within a month as their feasibility studies had already been completed.
Top Story
April 17, 2021
SUKKUR: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday announced a massive development package of Rs446 billion for 14 under-developed districts of Sindh, saying the effects of the investment would be visible within a month.
While addressing a ceremony in connection with the government s flagship Kamyab Jawan Programme at the Sukkur IBA University, the prime minister said he was pleased to be visiting interior Sindh and added that as he was fighting the biggest mafias in Punjab, he could not focus on Sindh.
Federal Ministers Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Dr Fehmida Mirza, Ali Haider Zaidi, Asad Umar and Muhammad Mian Soomro, Governor Sindh Imran Ismail, Special Assistants to PM Dr Sania Nishtar and Usman Dar, Senator Saif Abro, Haleem Adil Shaikh, Mobin Jatoi and Syed Tahir Shah were also present on the occasion.