PM announces Rs 446bn poor-centric package for Sindh’s backward areas
* Package comprises restoration of 200,000 acres of land, construction of Nai Gaj Dam and Sukkur-Hyderabad motorway, gas supply to 160 villages and 30,000 new power connections to deprived districts
April 17, 2021
Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday unveiled a historic development package worth Rs 446 billion to uplift backward areas of opposition-led Sindh province through power supply, irrigation, sports and communication projects.
The prime minister, while addressing a ceremony to hand over business loan cheques among the entitled youths here, said proposed projects would start getting shape within a month as feasibility studies have already been completed. He said he is pleased to visit the interior Sindh with a good news of development package, which otherwise is the responsibility of the provincial government under the 18th Amendment. He said Interior Sindh is the poorest area of the country, besides Southern Balochistan and now merged tribal districts. He also likened the development outlook of the interior Sindh with Mohenjo-Daro and said instead of any advancement of the people were moving backward.