Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Budar has assigned ministers to monitor the wheat procurement campaign alongside the measures taken for the prevention of coronavirus in their respective districts.
Communique has been issued form Chief Minister’s office in this regard. Provincial ministers, advisors and special assistants will monitor wheat procurement campaign in the respective districts. The chief minister directed the ministers, advisors and special assistants to immediately contact with Health and Food departments besides district administration in this regard.
It is further directed that ministers, advisors and special assistants will report to the Chief Minister office regarding coronavirus situation and wheat procurement campaign of their respective districts. Provincial ministers Ch Zaheer-ud-Din will monitor corona situation and wheat procurement the campaign in Faisalabad. Similarly, Rai Taimoor will monitor the same in Jhang, Maher Aslam in Chiniot, Ashifa Riaz in TT Singh, Yasmeen Rashid in Lahore, Hashim Dogar in Kasur, Malik Asad in Nankana, Mian Khalid in Sheikhupura, Raja Rashid Hafeez in Rawalpindi, Hafiz Ammar Yasir in Chakwal, Asif Mahmood in Jhelum, Malik Anwar in Attock, Ansar Majeed Khan in Sargodgha, Mumtaz Ahmed in Khushab, Ameer Muhammad Khan in Bhakkar, Mian Mahmood ur Rasheed in Gujranwala, Muhammad Rizwan in Gujrat, Umer Farooq in Hafizabad, Muhammad Ajmal in Mandi Bahuddin, Pir Syed Saeed-ul-Hassan Shah in Narowal, Muhammad Akhlaq in Sialkot, Malik Noman in Sahiwal, Samsaam Bukhari in Okara, Faisal Hayat in Pakpattan, Sami Ullah Chaudhary in Bahawalpur, Shaukat Lalika in Bahawalnagar, Mohsin Laghari in Rahim Yar Khan, Muhammad Akhter in Multan, Syed Hussain Jahanian Gerdezi in Khaniwal, Zawar Waraich in Lodhran, Jahanzaib Khichi in Vehari, Hanif Pattafi in DG Khan, Hussain Bahadur Dareshak in Rajanpur, Abdul Hayi Dasti in Muzaffargarh and Syed Rafaqat Gillani will monitor wheat procurement and corona situation in Layyah.
Usman Buzdar further stated that government will ensure the protection of health and safeguarding the rights of cultivators. He said that avoiding corona in the gathering of wheat procurement the campaign is utmost necessary. Using machinery instead of human resource will be beneficial, he added.
The government has started supply of ration and other relief items to the poor and destitute people with the cooperation of philanthropists. On the appeal of Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar well-to-do and traders’ community have donated relief items worth billions of rupees.
In the first phase 100 trucks containing ration and relief items have been received for the various districts. Usman Buzdar personally sent the trucks loaded with ration and relief items to the concerned district under his supervision from Punjab University Ground. Usman Bazdar while talking on the occasion said that unemployed and needy people in Punjab will be provided groceries and relief goods at their door step.
He said that 100 trucks containing relief items are being sent to different district according to their needs. He further maintained that more relief goods will be provided with the help of donors and business community and this supply chain will be extended to other districts as well under a phase-wise programme.
He said that those families which are affected due to the situation occurred from coronavirus will not be left alone. He said that government will fully support those who become unemployed due to the closure of commercial business organizations.
