Foreign investment of up to 25 billion dollars is expected in the Punjab province, which will ensure economic growth, promote local industry and create jobs for thousands of people. This was told by Punjab Minister for Public Health Engineering (PHE), Hasan Akhtar Mokal while talking to APP.
He said that there had been a 120 percent increase in trade with China. He said that the Punjab government was providing health facilities, including provision of clean drinking water, to the masses at grassroots level.
As many as 1,000 water schemes costing rupees five billion were being completed in the province, including water treatment plants and testing laboratories were being established.
Through another project, old and eroded pipelines for drinking water, and for sewerage system, were being replaced. The work would be completed by the end of this year, he said.