The Sialkot district government has again recommended to the Federal and provincial governments to early announce the soft-term agricultural loans on three percent mark up ratio to the growers and farmers for brining revolutionary boom in agricultural sector and economical development of the farmers and growers.
This was stated by Sialkot District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid while talking to the newsmen here on Saturday.
He said that agriculture was the backbone of the country's economic development, as the country's 75 percent population depended upon agriculture.
He said that the issuance of soft-term agricultural loans on three percent mark up ratio would be a revolutionary step of the government towards the goal of farmers community's economic stability.
He said that it was the need of the day to reduce the ratio of mark up to three percent on agricultural loans in the larger interest of the growers' community.
The District Nazim claimed that the local district government system had paved the way of changing the fate of the depressed people and backward areas through speeding up the pace of development works in Sialkot district.
He said that the district government provided the missing facilities, including furniture, electricity, potable water, besides, constructing the additional class rooms, boundary walls and lavatories in the district's 660 different schools by spending Rs 240 million.
He said that 250 kilometre-long roads had been reconstructed and repaired in Sialkot district, besides ensuring the availability of MBBS doctors in all the rural areas' RHCs, BHUs and dispensaries.
The District Nazim claimed that Sialkot district's all the villages had been electrified by the district government.
He said that construction of Sialkot International Airport at Sambrial-Daska was briskly under way and regular cargo and passenger flight would be operational till the end of 2004, while the Rs 500 million grant for the project of "Sialkot Cadet College" at Pasrur was also in pipeline.