GILGIT: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday introduced fast provision of 100 megawatts of electrical energy to Gilgit Baltistan and allotted a Rs1 billion endowment fund for college college students.
The event got here throughout a particular assembly of the GB cupboard chaired by the prime minister throughout his daylong go to to Gilgit as we speak.
In the course of the assembly, the prime minister additionally introduced Rs1 billion merit-based endowment fund for the scholars of Baltistan College and Karakorum College.
PM Shehbaz additionally advised the GB cupboard members that the federal authorities would set up Daanish Colleges within the area, on the sample of Punjab province.
Moreover, the premier instructed the GB administration to ascertain academic establishments, playgrounds, energy transmission and different amenities in Ghizer district.
He recalled that whereas being Punjab chief minister, his authorities had given a Rs1 billion reward to uplift GB’s training sector.
The prime minister, through the assembly, expressed satisfaction and pleasure over the well timed completion of Bubar Mannequin Village, which he earlier inaugurated, to supply housing facility to the individuals affected by flood in 2022.
Stressing that the federal government is actively working for the uplift and welfare of the GB individuals, PM Shehbaz stated that the provincial governments’ cooperation with the federal authorities for the financial stability was vital.
He lauded the position of all provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and GB within the nationwide growth and highlighted his authorities’s particular concentrate on the uplift of GB, merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
PM Shehbaz stated that the federal authorities was taking measures to advertise tourism in GB as Qatari authorities had additionally expressed curiosity to spend money on tourism there.
Federal ministers Ahsan Iqbal, Attaullah Tarar, Amir Muqam and Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, members of the GB cupboard and related senior officers attended the assembly.