DG KHAN: On Tuesday, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar laid the foundation stone for the district’s 15 development programmes.
The CM said new tehsils and districts would be carved out to alleviate challenges of the populace while laying a plaque at the Circuit House for three projects worth over Rs600 million. A protective embankment to safeguard nearby settlements from river erosion, the Ghajini escape project, and a protective embankment worth over Rs400 million on the right side of the Indus river are all part of the project.
Along with the inauguration of Shehr-e-Khamoshan, Model Graveyard, Kotla Sikhani, and Gharbi DG Khan, he also inaugurated the Pull Dot Chowk beautifying project.
The chief minister also laid the foundation stone for 12 projects worth nine billion rupees in DG Khan, including a Rs2.10 billion mother and child hospital, a 133-kilometer road connecting Kohe and Suleman, an improvement project, and the construction of emergency and OPD blocks in the DG Khan teaching hospital.
Later, at a meeting held at the commissioner’s office in DG Khan, the chief minister was briefed on development schemes, and the chief minister made it very clear that delays in the implementation of development schemes were unacceptable.
The CM voiced his concern with the DG Khan solid waste management company’s performance and expressed remorse for the unnecessary delay in procuring required machinery despite funds being available. He suggested that the South Punjab secretary should go to the field to examine projects, and that empty posts at the DG Khan Teaching Hospital be filled as soon as possible.
The Chief Minister said that a forensic lab for South Punjab will be established in DG Khan, and that one billion rupees would be spent on an off-grid alternative to supply cheap electricity. The CM was informed on the construction and restoration of the Indus Highway Taunsa and Sakhi Sarwar Bridge by NHA officials.
Meanwhile, members of the Bahawalpur division’s national and provincial assemblies paid a visit to Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar at the Islamia University’s Baghdad Campus in Bahawalpur, thanking him for issuing the division’s new Pakistan national health card. “We aim to create new tehsils and districts,” he said, adding that the announcement could not be made because of local government elections.
