Provincial Minister for Industries Sardar Dost Muhammad Khan Khosa said the Punjab government was setting its priorities for health and education sectors to provide latest facilities to the masses. Addressing the trustees of Faisalabad Development Trust (FDT) after inaugurating the Headquarters Office Building of the Trust in Commissioner Complex here, he said that Punjab was on its right direction for sustained development. The minister lauded the efforts of the FDT for execution of welfare projects in health and education sectors.
Divisional Commissioner Syed Tahir Hussain, chairman FDT Mian Muhammad Tayyab, vice chairman Shaiq Jawaid and chief of Industrial Police Liaison Committee (IPLC) Syed Omar Nazar Shah also addressed. MNA Abid Sher Ali, DCO Nasim Sadiq and FDT Trustees, Sheikh Hassan Munawar, Abid Kamal, Ahmed Shafi and Nazim Shahzad also attended the Meeting.
The minister said that the unemployment was the main issue in the country and said that the Punjab government was trying its optimum to resolve this issue. He asked the FDT Trustees and other Industrialists of Faisalabad to provide maximum employment opportunities to jobless people in their industrial units. He appreciated the steps of the FDT for the construction of houses to disabled families in Faisalabad, drastic steps in health and education sectors and plantation for greenery in Faisalabad and added that the other philanthropists should also pursue it.
He assured that the Punjab government would extend its full cooperation to FDT for implementation of welfare projects. He announced that the government would attach its top priority to the counseling by FDT. Commissioner Syed Tahir Hussain said that during the last year flood damages in Jhang and Chiniot districts, as much as 300 houses were constructed in the flood-hit areas with the cooperation of well-to-do people and FDT.
He elaborated that under this platform, a comprehensive and integrated programme for free supply of medicines and food to deserving patients in government run hospitals was being launched by the FDT while total educational expenses of deserving students belonging to four provinces, Azad Kashmir and other remote areas of the country will be borne by the FDT. Earlier, FDT chairman Mian Muhammad Tayyab ,in his welcome address.—APP
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