CM launches 'Ehsaas Rashan Program' worth Rs100b in Punjab
Pakistan
Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi pledged to allocate more funds for this program in future.
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi inaugurated Punjab Ehsaas Rashan Program in Lahore on Sunday. The program will cost one hundred billion rupees for provision of edible items to eight million families at affordable rate.
Speaking on the occasion, the Punjab Chief Minister said that under the program, poor families will be able to purchase flour, ghee, oil and pulses from the registered grocery stores at forty percent discount.
Terming the Punjab Ehsaas Rashan Program as a remarkable project for the provision of relief to the marginalized sections of society, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi pledged to allocate more funds for this program in future.
CM Pervaiz Elahi paid tribute to Dr Sania Nishtar, chairperson of the programme for her day and night working to make Ehsaas Ration program a success, saying that the benefit of targeted subsidy goes to the common man and initially Punjab government had allocated Rs100 billion for the programme and if needed, the amount would further be increased.
He highlighted that the Ehsaas programme had been acknowledged across the world and providing relief to the poor people was the vision of the Punjab government.
