The PTI government in Punjab is working on comprehensive developmental action to shift its economy into a higher gear during the last two years of its rule in the province, claims its finance minister Makhdum Hashim Jawan Bakht.
“We are preparing a growth-centric budget for the next fiscal year,” Mr Hashim said in an interview with this correspondent. “This year has remained promising in spite of the Covid-19 crisis and the economy has picked steam. Now we feel that we have a very good platform to start a shift towards development growth.”
He said the provincial government had spent the first three years (2018-21) cleaning up the economic mess left by the previous PML-N government, stimulate the economy and provide relief to the people to protect them from the adverse impacts of the global pandemic. “But now onwards we feel that we will have enough room to boost growth over the next two years (ahead of the 2023 elections),” the minister argued.