LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Excise & Taxation Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman has said that the PML-N government is doing its best to give relief to the low-income community of the province.
He said that the Punjab government has set up Punjab Social Protection Authority (PSPA) for providing socio-economic protection to the poor, adding that the authority is starting its first project at a cost of Rs2 billion under which scholarships will be given for the assistance of handicapped persons and their socio-economic rehabilitation, he added.
The minister said this while talking to various delegations at his residence. He said that the government has provided relief and subsidies to the people of the province in 2015-16 budget, which include subsidy of Rs10 billion on wheat, Ramazan Package of Rs5 billion, subsidy of Rs3.5 billion on transport and allocation of Rs10.8 billion for the provision of free medicines.
Mujtaba said that for basic sanitation measures i.e. clean & safe drinking water supply, sanitation, solid waste etc., measures are being adopted to save the people from communicable and non-communicable diseases as well as to provide them clean environmental atmosphere. He said that government was utilizing funds for the uplifting of social sector in the province so that to upgrade the social status of the people.
