Maryam Nawaz Launches Punjab Development Programme to Address Infrastructure Issues
— July 8, 2025
LAHORE (AIA) Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has announced to launch a massive Punjab Development Programme to address issues of sewerage and drainage as well as to rehabilitate dilapidated roads and streets across the province. Inaugurating development projects in Rawalpindi today, she said footprints of the Water and Sanitation Agency is being expanded to all the cities of the Punjab. She said now every city will have its own WASA, machinery and human resource to facilitate the public.
The Chief Minister further said the government is working on provision of potable water to the citizens across the province. She said a programme worth fifty billion rupees will be launched to provide the clean drinking water to the residents of Southern Punjab. Maryam Nawaz said the Punjab Government believes in serving the masses through all means. She said around 12,000 kilometer-long roads have been completed during the last one year and by the end of this year over 19,000 kilometers long roads will be completed by the end of this year. The Chief Minister said around 1300 Basic Health Units and 300 Rural Health Centers were revamped and converted into the state of the art mini-hospitals at a fast pace.