Transgender persons in Punjab to be paid stipend by govt
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LAHORE: Transgender persons in Punjab will now be paid a stipend by the government.
The initiative is part of the provincial government s programme under the Punjab Social Protection Authority.
Special Assistant to Punjab Chief Minister on Information Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan shared details of the programme for transgender persons in a media talk in Lahore on Thursday.
She was accompanied by Punjab Social Protection Authority Vice Chairperson Jamal Nasir Cheema.
The incumbent government is giving priority to less privileged segments of society in all its projects, said Dr Awan.
Most of the Punjab Cabinet members have proposed that the provincial government must go ahead to impose lockdown in the cities facing high coronavirus rate. INP/File
LAHORE: Most of the Punjab Cabinet members have proposed that the provincial government must go ahead to impose lockdown in the cities facing high coronavirus rate.
As many as 2,100 coronavirus deaths and 85,900 new positive cases have been reported during the past one month. Lahore alone is facing 22.7 per cent positivity rate at present. Twenty-three districts are reporting over 8pc infection rate in Punjab.
However, the cabinet in its 43rd meeting at chief minister’s secretariat on Thursday did not immediately decide to propose lockdown in select cities to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC).
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LAHORE: The Punjab government will hold its 43st provincial cabinet meeting at chief minister’s secretariat on Thursday with 15 items on its agenda, including briefings on the Covid situation, wheat procurement as well as price control and Ramazan bazaars.
The senior member of the Board of Revenue has on his agenda (for provincial cabinet’s nod) lease of the Jinnah Park of Rawalpindi to Headquarters 10 Corps Rawalpindi; Punjab government’s case through the commissioner of Bahawalpur versus Lawyers Cooperative Housing Society; de-notification of tehsil `De-Excluded Area’ of Rajanpur district and inclusion of its revenue estates into adjoining tehsils of Rajanpur district; and establishment of new tehsil “Chowk Sarwar Shaheed” in district Muzaffargarh.