Funds Being Spent For Minorities' Welfare: Usman Buzdar
Sumaira FH Published November 24, 2021 | 07:10 PM
Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said on Wednesday that a sum of Rs 2.5 billion was being spent for the welfare of minorities, adding that a two percent quota for minority communities' students would open the doors of higher education in the best institutions to excel in life
LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 24th Nov, 2021 ) :Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said on Wednesday that a sum of Rs 2.5 billion was being spent for the welfare of minorities, adding that a two percent quota for minority communities' students would open the doors of higher education in the best institutions to excel in life.
During a meeting with Provincial Minister for Human Rights and Minorities Affairs Ijaz Alam Augustine and Youdhister Chohan MPA in his office, the chief minister congratulated Youdhister Chohan on becoming member of the provincial assembly.
He said that minorities had always played an active role in national development. The religious minorities enjoy equal rights and instructions had been issued to implement a five percent job quota for minority communities in toto, he added.
No practical step was taken for the welfare of minorities in the past, he deplored.
The CM said that minorities' cells had been set up in 40 provincial government departments along with the nomination of focal persons. Similarly, focal persons have also been nominated in 9 divisions, 36 districts and 144 tehsils after setting up minorities' cells to help resolve their issues, he mentioned.
Alongside, he said that special funds had been provided for the repair and maintenance of Gurdawaras, Hindu Temples and Churches.
It was sanguine that practical steps had been taken by Prime Minister Imran Khan to protect the rights of minorities in Pakistan, he remarked.
On the other side, the CM strongly condemned the ill-treatment of minorities in India whichwas the so-called claimant of being the largest democracy in the world. The hindu supremacistModi regime had turned India into a Hindu state where minorities were languishing, he added.
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