Punjab Chief Minister's Office Special Monitoring Unit (Law and Order) has announced that it is starting a project "Shehr-e-Khamooshaan" following the chief minister's vision to provide a hassle-free burial services to bereaved families.
City district governments of respective districts will execute the project entailing designed model graveyards which will offer a toll-free helpline for proper burial assistance, hearse and shuttle services to transport the family, dead body and bathing arrangement, a funeral prayer section and a mortuary to preserve the body for those waiting for their overseas relatives. The land for the project is being identified in Mauza Rakh Cheddu near the Ferozepur Road to establish them in Lahore, Multan and Sargodha.
The chief minister has set up a model graveyard's implementation committee under the chairmanship of Advisor to Chief Minister Khawaja Ahmad Hassan in which the commissioner, the district co-ordination officer, the Model Town assistant commissioner and the executive district officer had played a crucial role in identifying the land. Offices of the commissioner and the district co-ordination officer worked closely with the Special Monitoring Unit to develop SOPs for all future graveyards to be established in the Punjab. "The cumbersome burial process will come to an end as soon as Shehr-e-Khamooshaan is established and citizens of the Punjab will find their government standing right beside them in this hour of grief," he claimed.