A well-knitted face-lifting plan costing over Rs 800 million is being launched in Tehsil Pasrur of Sialkot district shortly. Under the plan, several development projects pertaining to public welfare would be completed in the area. Official sources told Business Recorder on Thursday here that the government had taken the step to banish backwardness from the area as well as to provide basic facilities to the local population. They said the government has also approved the project to set up a cadet college in Pasrur.
The proposed Cadet college would be developed over 148 acres of land at a cost of Rs 200 million. Further, the government has also decided to establish two schools for the children of industrial workers and a hospital in near future at a cost of Rs 220 million in Chawinda.
Sources said the present regime was making strenuous efforts to resolve the problems and difficulties being faced by the industrial workers of Tehsil Pasrur, adding that Rs 160 million was released to widen and construct Sialkot-Pasrur Road, and work on this project would be initiated next month.
In addition to this, they said that Rs 25 million would be spent on the construction and improvement of sewerage scheme in Tehsil Pasrur, while Rs 50 million for reconstruction of roads, street lighting and water supply schemes of Chawinda. Besides, a mini hospital for industrial workers and their dependants would also be established in the area.
Apart from this, fool-proof flood protective bunds had already been constructed on both sides of nullah Dek costing more than Rs 90 million, for saving vast agricultural land and villages of Tehsil Pasrur from floodwater of the nullah on permanent basis, they added.
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