LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar in a meeting with federal ministers here on Friday said that Punjab has formulated ease of doing business for the construction sector and the ratio of stamp duty has been decreased from 5 per cent to one per cent.
Federal Ministers Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Asad Umer, Shafqat Mahmood, Fawad Chaudhry, chief whip in national assembly Malik Amir Dogar and Advisor to PM Shehzad Akbar called on CM Usman Buzdar at his office here on Friday and discussed different matters of mutual interest. They presented different proposals for public welfare schemes. Chairman P&D, Secretary Finance and Secretary Local Government gave briefings to the participants.
Talking on the occasion, the CM emphasized that practical steps have been taken for composite development of the province and assured that no area will remain deprived of development process adding that authority will be devolved at the grassroots. Further, a target has been fixed to complete 1394 ongoing development projects in the current fiscal year while a tax relief worth 56 billion rupees has also been given due to the corona situation, he added.
However, the CM pointed out that the social sector budget has been sufficiently increased and taxes have been reduced while expanding tax-base. Supplementary grants worth 61 billion rupees have been rejected as the province is strictly following financial discipline, he emphasized.
Federal Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that organized work will be done for public welfare while Federal Minister Asad Umer said that Punjab and the federal government will work in unison for providing facilities to the people.
Federal Minister Fawad Chaudhry stated that devolution of power will help to solve public problems at their doorsteps and Federal Minister Shafqat Mahmood stressed the government will come up to the expectations of the people in accordance with the vision of Prime Minister Imran khan.
Moreover, the CM Usman Buzdar while talking to MPAs said that those involved in negative politics now have had ignored the fundamental needs of the people in their tenure. The nation knows the raison d'être of the opposition's alliance and real faces of opposition leaders have been fully exposed, he said and added the opposition is bent upon creating hurdles in the journey of development.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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