South Punjab Secretariat is playing an important role in the development of the backward region and a new era of progress has commenced with the allocation of a separate development budget by the Punjab government.
This was stated by Secretary Services South Punjab Nausheen Malik while talking to a delegation of senior officers of the 35th Mid Career Management Course organised by the National Institute of Management (NIM) Islamabad, who visited the South Punjab Secretariat Multan here on Tuesday.
The delegation was led by NIM Director Masood Ahmed. She stated that more development funds were being given to south Punjab as compared to the population ratio. She added Rs 237 billion were being spent on different uplift schemes.