Chief Minister of Punjab Maryam Nawaz chaired a marathon six-and-a-half-hours review meeting in which important decisions about education, health, agriculture, livestock roads and other sectors were made.
Under CM Maryam Nawaz Sharif’s ‘Suthra Punjab’ programme, the largest comprehensive sanitation system in the history of Pakistan will be implemented from mid-November. The launching of ‘Suthra Punjab’ will be started in 100 tehsils of Punjab by October 15.
Under the second phase of ‘Suthra Punjab’, the cleaning process will also be started in 34 more tehsils from November 15.
Approval for Chief Minister Fund for Solar Panel Production and Manufacturing was granted for local production of solar panels in Punjab. In November, people will start getting solar panels under the Chief Minister’s programme.
Maryam Nawaz directed to complete Pakistan’s first official autism school project in Lahore within one year.
In the meeting, 482 schemes of construction and repair of 11,000 km roads in Punjab were reviewed. Revamping of 581 primary health centres of South Punjab has started and the target of completion has been set by next January. Proposals for health screening of students and establishment of thalassemia centre were also reviewed.
The Chief Minister directed to ensure cleanliness in the hospitals acorss Punjab. She directed to undertake immediate steps for the construction of Nawaz Sharif Cardiology Institute Sargodha and Nawaz Sharif Cancer Hospital. She directed to ensure cardiology treatment facilities in every city.
Maryam Nawaz Sharif sought a deadline for the police body cam programme. Some 11,000 cattle will be given to women in the villages of 17 districts at a cost of Rs. 2 billion. Punjab’s first livestock card for farmers will be launched next month and 20,000 farmers will be able to get food, medicine and equipment, etc. through the Farmer Livestock Card.
In the meeting, agroforestry project was approved on government waste land under which onions, potatoes and olives, etc. will be cultivated. It was decided to conduct a wildlife census for the first time in Punjab for the wildlife protection.
The launch of “eco-tourism” project in Changa Manga and the proposal to build the first model fish market of the province in Lahore were reviewed. It was agreed to form a ‘Shrimp Farming Export Company’.
A briefing was given about the shrimp pilot experimental farm on 100 acres in Muzaffargarh. A principle approval was given to establish a ‘Special Directorate’ for shrimp farming. It was also approved to increase the area for shrimp farming to 50,000 acres along with conducting farmers’ training and establishing value added chain. Approval was given to establish hatcheries for Pangasius and other fish species in Lahore and DG Khan.
