During a special meeting of the Gilgit Baltistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Shareef announced that an additional power supply of 100 megawatts will be delivered to the Gilgit Baltistan sector. Additionally, an endowment fund of Rs1 billion was also announced for the university students.
During the meeting, PM Shehbaz Shareef expressed satisfaction and pleasure towards the completion of Bubar model village which is inaugurated to provide residences to the people affected by flood in 2022.
The Gilgit Baltistan administration was also instructed to establish educational institutions, playgrounds, power transmission and other facilities in Ghizer district to facilitate a better lifestyle of the general public. Prime Minister Shehbaz told the GB cabinet members that the federal government would establish Daanish Schools in GB, on the pattern of Punjab province.
He commended the role of all provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and GB in the national development and highlighted his government’s special focus on the uplift of GB, merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. After the announcement of Qatari government’s interest in the tourism development of this sector, the government is also looking forward to take serious measures to promote tourism in the sector.
The meeting was attended by Federal ministers Ahsan Iqbal, Attaullah Tarar, Amir Muqam and Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, members of the GB cabinet and relevant senior officers.
