PML- N govt completed Rs 260bn uplift projects in South Punjab: CM

BAHAWALPUR: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that the PML- N government has completed development projects of Rs 260 billion during the last five years in South Punjab which are six times more than the Pervaiz Elahi’s era. He was addressing laptops distribution ceremony among more than four thousand male and female students at the auditorium of Islamia University Bahawalpur on Monday. The Chief Minister said that Punjab government has spent Rs 111 billion in education sector throughout the province whereas previous government spent only eleven billion rupees. He said that investment of Rs 50 billion has been made during last five years in Bahawlapur Division under which Daanish Schools in Rahim Yar Khan, Chishtian, Hasilpur, women colleges, flyovers, mobile hospitals, network of roads, 410- bed District Headquarter Hospital Bahawalpur and other welfare projects have been completed. Addressing male and female students, Shahbaz disclosed that laptops worth Rs. 8 billion have been distributed among two lakh and twenty five thousand students on merit during last two years, out of which if only five percent became Arfa Karim, the destiny of Pakistan will change. He said that the investment on youth will create a new Pakistan and these students will develop a formula of eliminating corruption through these laptops so that Zardari should know that we have changed the darkness spread by him into light. Shahbaz said that all projects including Metro Bus System of international standard, laptops, Ujala Programme and solar energy system, have been presented to Transparency International for impartial audit. He said that if corruption of even a single penny is proved, he and all government departments will be accountable to the nation. He said that PML- N government with the collaboration of Germany has started a 400- MW solar energy project with an investment of 1.5 billion dollars in Cholistan which will start production within one and a half years.