Bahria Town to ensure free educational, medical facilities for poor under Pakistan Fund soon

ISLAMABAD: Bahria Town would introduce Pakistan Fund soon to provide educational and medical facilities free of cost to the deserving community.

As per plan, Bahria Town would take over 400 schools and and some hospitals in major cities so as to run them on modern grounds.

More than 2000 children would be provided education while deserving persons would be provided health related facilities, Chairman, Bahria Town Malik Riaz said here on Tuesday.

He was talking to media persons at a signing ceremony of an agreement under which Mobilink would launch its Digital Mobile Financial Services Platform for Bahria Town residents, making it the largest private sector enterprise to transform and lead in deployment of its first digital economy module.

Malik Riaz said Bahria Town would be utilizing Mobilink's Digital Financial Services platform to initiate outbound and inbound transactions.

He said in next phase there is a plan to use it for financial transfers between all our service providers, be it schools, hospitals or maintenance services.

He said this agreement showcases our resolve to develop Smart Cities through digital transformation of all services and the reason to partner with Mobilink is based on surety that Mobilink's Digital platform is robust enough to become the interconnect platform for all our cities' infrastructures, as Bahria Town develops the Smart Cities in due time.

On the occasion, President and CEO - Mobilink, Jeffrey Hedberg said this partnership is the first step towards Digital Evolution, as it provides Bahria Town with the most robust digital financial services platform for transactions on Mobilink's resilient 3G and fixed data networks.

Furthermore, this platform will be extended for other communications through our M2M, IOT (Internet of things) and Sensors offerings for full scale Smart City deployments, he added.

The services include Business-to-Business (B2B), Business-to- Clients (B2C) and Business-to-Public (B2P) services.

Initially these services will include all kinds of utilities and maintenance payments, salary disbursements and payments to other service providers and contractors.

On the occasion Director Business Development, Mobilink, Ali Kamran said Mobilink and Bahria Town are forging a relationship which leads Pakistan in to real digital age.

He said this is the first step in creation of a digital economy which forms part of a larger plan in the shape of the Smart Cities initiative.

Both companies will be leading the digital charge to give public numerous facilities on their smartphones in the coming months.