Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced a mega development package for the province of Balochistan for the provision of basic facilities like electricity, gas, water and Internet in its nine southern districts.
Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme has also been launched for southern Balochistan.
Under the scheme homeless, poor and low income salaried people would be
provided with the financing facility at a mere 5% mark-up for the construction of their own houses. Apart from other basic amenities some 500,000 people in southern Balochistan would be provided with the facility of 4G Internet connectivity under the package.
Under the package for southern Balochistan, 47,000 homes in nine districts would be connected with the National Grid for the provision of electricity and 273,000 would be provided with off-grid electricity. In order to overcome the gas shortage, he said, people would be provided with the facility of LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) on subsidized rates. Initially, 15% of the poor would be provided with the subsidy, which would late be expanded to 30%.For addressing the issue of water, 19 dams would be constructed in southern Balochistan, which would irrigate 150,000 acres of agricultural lands in the area.
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