Bahawalpur News

Government has been spending billion of rupees to provide basic socio-economic facilities to the residents of Southern Punjab : Engineer Baleeg-ur-Rehman

Bahawalpur (PR)Minister state for Education and Interior Engineer Baleeg-ur-Rehman has said the Government has been spending billion of rupees to establish state of the art infrastructure to provide basic socio-economic facilities to the residents of Southern Punjab. He made these remarks while talking to various delegations who called on him at his residence.   "Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif have earmarked special development funds to eliminate sense of deprivation which had been privilege due to the policies of the previous governments; and these new projects would usher new era of progress and prosperity in the Southern Punjab", the Minister maintained.

            Mr. Baleeg-ur-Rehman further said that government has been paying special attention to promote modern education by providing foreign scholarships to the students of the area to creat modern and state of the art human resource base in the Southern Punjab, therefore to achieve these unprecedented socio-economic uplifts targets, development targets, the government has enhanced budget for education, to the tune of rupees 775 billion, the minister said.

            To extend higher education facilities the Federal Government has been focusing to promote distance learning which is manifested by the operationalizing  the two Regional Campus of Allama Iqbal Open University by spending the development funds to the tune of rupees 210 million on these two projects; the Minister concluded.

Meeting of the Board of Management Quaid-e-Azam Medical College

Bahawalpur (PR) Meeting of the Board of Management Quaid-e-Azam Medical College and allied institutions would be held on 14th May at 10:00 AM in the committee room of Quaid-e-Azam Medical Bahawalpur

Commissioner Bahawalpur Division Saqib Zafar has directed all concerned officers and officials to mobilize all available resources to ensure fool proof security

Bahawalpur (PR) Commissioner Bahawalpur Division Saqib Zafar has directed all concerned officers and officials to mobilize all available resources to ensure fool proof security cover to all educational institutions, business centers, recreational spots  in Bahawalpur Division. He made these remarks while presiding a high level meeting to review the security arrangements of different departments in the Bahawalpur Division.

                                    The meeting was attended by District Coordination Officer Dr. Ehtisham Anwar, District Police Officer Sarfraz Ahmed Falki, Additional Commissioner Coordination Saqib Ali Ateel, District Officer Coordination Amjad Bashir, CEO Cantonment Board Zafar Mehmood, Director Colleges  Prof. Mehmood-ul-Hassan, EDO Education Ch.Bashir Ahmed and    heads of different education institutions representatives traders community and prominent religious personalities.

                                    The meeting took a comprehensive review of the security arrangements made by different department in accordance with standard operational procedure of  the provincial government. The representatives of different departments briefed the Commissioner about  various the steps taken by them to ensure a comprehensive and effective security cover their respective departments. The Commissioner Bahawalpur division directed the concerned authorities to pay special attention to extend security cover at all public places specially at airports, bus stands, railway stations during the peak hours.

                                    He further directed that scanners and CCTV cameras should be operationalized and their working should be  monitored by the concerned focal persons in of all the departments. Commissioner Bahawalpur emphasized that alongwith all public places the security of academic institutions deserves special attention. Therefore, all heads of these institutions and should focus their attention to monitor the  functionalize of CCTV cameras walk through gates to extend fool proof security in the academic institutions he concluded.       

5901 persons have been provided vehicles under the Chief Minister Punjab APNA Rozgar scheme : Commissioner Bahawalpur Division Saqib Zafar

Bahawalpur (PR) In another meeting, Commissioner Bahawalpur Division Saqib Zafar said that as many as 5901 persons have been provided vehicles under the Chief Minister Punjab APNA Rozgar scheme in the 3 districts of Bahawalpur Division. Commissioner Bahawalpur revealed these achievements in providing self- employment opportunities to the youth of the division.

While elaborating the different aspects of the scheme he said that out of 5901 vehicles, 3465 Bolans while 2436 Ravi vehicles have been distributed. He further explained that the Bahawalpur beneficiaries got 760 vehicles; Ahmadpur sharqia Tehsil 451 beneficiaries, Hasilpur 408, Khairpur Tamewali 105 and Yazman 339 beneficiaries got Bolan and Ravi vehicles in District Bahawalpur.

The beneficiaries of the APNA rozgar scheme of Rahim Yar Khan District include:- 617 in Tehsil Sadiqabad, 488 in Tehsil Khanpur, 532 Liaqatpur and 1008 vehicles for Rahim Yar Khan Tehsils, the commissioner said.

Commissioner Bahawalpur further stated that the beneficiaries of Bahawalnagar district were:- 369 in Bahawalnagar tehsil, 353 Chishtian, 160 Fort Abbas, 263 Haroon Abad and 175 Minchan Abad.

Commissioner Saqib Zafar explained that in the APNA Rozgar Scheme beneficiaries have been provided these vehicles on interest free and easy installments basis which has enabled thousands of the youth of the area to start their own business. This scheme would go a long way to promote the culture of self employment among the youth of the area, he concluded.