Sialkot district government is spending about Rs 3.945 billion for different development projects in the district. This was stated by the District Nazim Muhammad Akmal Cheema while talking to newsmen here on Sunday.
The district Nazim said that more than Rs 1.75 billion is being spent for the promotion and expansion of education in its Tehsils - Sialkot, Daska, Pasrur and Sambrial.
He said that there are 2,400 primary school in the district and every union council had been provided Rs 20, 000 for undertaking the development work and other requirements of schools. Cheema said that Punjab government had catered Rs 650 million for furniture, additional classrooms, boundary walls and washrooms in existing schools.
The district government had evolved a strategy for improving the district road network costing Rs 2 billion for improving the means of communication in the district. He disclosed that funds amounting to Rs 100 million had been released for the up-gradation of Civil Hospital Daska while Rs 55 million allocated for widening BRB canal bridge near Daska City for ensuring smooth traffic flow on Daska-Gujranwala road.
The Nazim said that 67 watercourses - 17 in Barani and 50 in canal areas - would be completed costing Rs 40 million in the district. The completion of watercourses would play an instrumental role in the promotion of agriculture while sufficient water would be available to tail-end farmers, he added.