8m Families Benefiting From Rs 100b Ehsaas Ration Discount Program: CM

Sumaira FH Published October 11, 2022 | 07:53 PM

Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has said that the provincial government has launched Ehsaas ration discount program with Rs 100 billion, and currently eight million deserving families are benefiting from it by getting flour, pulses, cooking oil on 40 per cent discounted rates

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 11th Oct, 2022 ) :Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has said that the provincial government has launched Ehsaas ration discount program with Rs 100 billion, and currently eight million deserving families are benefiting from it by getting flour, pulses, cooking oil on 40 per cent discounted rates.

In a statement issued here on Tuesday, he said the Punjab government would continue serving people and providing them with necessary relief. He said that various steps had been taken to facilitate people. People of three flood-hit districts had also been included in the program, he added.

The chief minister said the people deprived of social protection are responsibility of the state, adding that the Ehsaas ration discount program was a big step towards achieving the goal of poverty alleviation.

Parvez Elahi noted that the national health card was a flagship program of the incumbent government as 2.

2 million patients have so far been treated under this program free of cost.

Also, cancer patients were provided with the facility of treatment through cyber knife technology and this would provide much-needed relief to them, he added. Parvez Elahi said that more than 54,000 cancer patients had been treated through the national health card program, while more than 483,000 kidney patients had also received free treatment. TThe CM said that relief had been given to people by ensuring a 100pc decrease in the ratio of stamp duty. For public convenience, the rate of stamp duty has been fixed at 1pc across Punjab. By reducing the rate of stamp duty, urban property registration and transfers will increase. This would provide relief to citizens and the government would get more revenue, he said.