PM announces 100MW power supply for GB, Rs1bn endowment fund

• PM chairs special meeting of Gilgit Baltistan cabinet. 
• Federal govt to establish Daanish schools in GB: PM. 
• PM instructs establishment of educational institutes.
  

GILGIT: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday announced the immediate power supply of 100 megawatts for Gilgit Baltistan and a Rs1 billion endowment fund for the universities students.

The prime minister made this announcement as he chaired the special meeting of the GB cabinet during his daylong visit to Gilgit today. 

During the meeting, the prime minister also announced Rs1 billion merit-based endowment fund for the students of Baltistan University and Karakorum University.

PM Shehbaz also told the GB cabinet members that the federal government would establish Daanish Schools in the region, on the pattern of Punjab province.

Furthermore, the premier instructed the GB administration to establish educational institutions, playgrounds, power transmission and other facilities in Ghizer district.

He recalled that while being Punjab chief minister, his government had given a Rs1 billion gift to uplift GB’s education sector.

The prime minister, during the meeting, expressed satisfaction and pleasure over the timely completion of Bubar Model Village, which he earlier inaugurated, to provide housing facility to the people affected by flood in 2022. 

Stressing that the government is actively working for the uplift and welfare of the GB people, PM Shehbaz said that the provincial governments’ cooperation with the federal government for the economic stability was significant.

He lauded the role of all provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and GB in the national development and highlighted his government’s special focus on the uplift of GB, merged districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

PM Shehbaz said that the federal government was taking measures to promote tourism in GB as Qatari government had also expressed interest to invest in tourism there.

Federal ministers Ahsan Iqbal, Attaullah Tarar, Amir Muqam and Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, members of the GB cabinet and relevant senior officers attended the meeting.