Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar termed the budget of the federal government as people-friendly and said that due to corona, Pakistan also faces many difficulties on the economic front.
In a statement on Saturday, he said despite this, the government has given a tax-free budget and Insha Allah, under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan will be ahead of the achievements. The opposition must get rid of the habit of obsession of criticism and criticizing the government in every case.
So far we have provided rations to more than 1.265 million poor families in Punjab in collaboration with welfare organizations under the Punjab Development Network. More than 60 charities in the Punjab Development Network are helping corona-affected people.
In a meeting with Prime Minister Imran Khan, Governor Chaudhry Sarwar apprised him of other measures including provision of rations to the poor families who became unemployed due to Corona crisis. He said provision of ration to poor families and other measures have taken.
He said that in collaboration with the business community and welfare organizations, 170,000 PPEs and 260,000 medical kits have been provided to doctors in Lahore and other cities of Punjab. So far in the corona crisis, Rs 4.5 billion have been spent on other measures including provision of rations to poor families, medical safety kits from corona and PPE kits. The governor informed the PM that more than 46,000 prisoners in Lahore and all other jails in Punjab have been provided with protective equipment to protect them from corona.
The University of Health Sciences is providing medical facilities to the victims of the corona epidemic on telephone lines and also Telemedicine centers are working 24 hours in medical universities. I am personally monitoring all the steps on a daily basis.
