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April 12, 2021
Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Sunday inaugurated “Koi Bhuka Na Soye ” programme in Lahore, in order to protect the poor people from inflation and price hike.
Under the programme, the poor and labour classes would be provided nearly 10,000 free meal boxes twice a day through mobile trucks at various points of Lahore. The programme was initially launched in two cities of Punjab Lahore and Faisalabad.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, the CM said that feeding others is a Sunnah as well as the tradition of Punjabis, and added that the Punjab government has initiated the programme across the province by following PM Imran Khan’s “Koi Bhuka Na Soe” project. Four trucks in Lahore and two in Faisalabad will provide lunch and supper respectfully to the destitute, especially labours and passengers, he announced
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April 12, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday said that during the past years, huge loans had piled up and after payment of instalments, little money was left for welfare of people.
He was speaking at the virtual inaugural ceremony of the ‘Bhuka Na Soye’ [None should go to bed hungry] initiative under Ehsaas programme here.
“Today we have huge piles of debts and limited resources to spend money on people.
“Despite that, Allah has commanded us to follow that path; then this path is the path of supremacy of law and humanity.
“It is our key responsibility to take care of the weaker sections of society,” he added.
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April 12, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday said that during the past years, huge loans had piled up and after payment of instalments, little money was left for welfare of people.
He was speaking at the virtual inaugural ceremony of the Bhuka Na Soye [None should go to bed hungry] initiative under Ehsaas programme here.
“Today we have huge piles of debts and limited resources to spend money on people. “Despite that, Allah has commanded us to follow that path; then this path is the path of supremacy of law and humanity. “It is our key responsibility to take care of the weaker sections of society,” he added.
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Under the programme, he said, a concept of mobile kitchens (kitchens on trucks) had been introduced which would be plied all over the country to provide free meal to the needy and hungry people.
“Koi Bhuka Na Soye programme is the beginning of Pakistan’s transformation into a welfare state,” the prime minister said at the launching ceremony during his visit to an Ehsaas Langar Khana in the federal capital.
Launches ‘Koi Bhuka Na Soye’ programme for poor, labourers
PM Khan said that through the subsidy programme, to be carried out under the umbrella of Ehsaas, amounts would be directly credited to the accounts of poor people, enabling them to buy basic items like wheat flour, sugar, ghee, pulses, etc.