Sialkot district government has allocated Rs 130 million for the improvement of communication system in Sialkot district during the current fiscal year.
Talking to reporters here on Saturday, District Nazim Akmal Cheema said that under the programme all linking roads and highways would be repaired and reconstructed to ensure smooth and safe travel facility to the masses. Cheema said that 39 schemes, out of 72 road schemes, had so far been completed in the district during the last fiscal year.
Apart from this, as many as 93 new projects, costing more than Rs 418.5 million, had been approved by the district government, he said. He said during the current fiscal year, priority would be given to completion of watercourses in the district, and added that Rs 40 million would be spent on the completion of 50 watercourses in canal areas and 17 in Barani areas of Sialkot district.
The District Nazim said that special children would be provided with free textbooks, uniforms, wheel-chairs and hearing aid instruments, besides pick and drop facility and Rs 200 as per month stipend to every student.
Akmal Cheema said that in current financial year, 67 percent of the total budget, which was Rs 1.84 billion, would be spent on the promotion of education in the district. He said that foolproof arrangements had been made for averting the possibilities of bogus recruitment and payments in education department. The steps, he said, had been taken keeping in view the serious irregularities and bungling in the education department, he added.
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