LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday said that 32.5 million people of Punjab are going to get their right at their doorsteps under Ramazan package named ‘Ramazan Nigehban.’
Addressing a press conference here, the Punjab CM stated: “We are going to give Ramazan package named ‘Ramadan Nigehban’ to the deserving people. Now people do not need stand in long queues while fasting. The right of poor people will be delivered at their doorstep without in a hassle-free manner.”
She said that following Nawaz Sharif’s wish, her team did a great exercise as in this whole process, people from the Punjab government, police and related departments are involved.
“The government does not have any specific data to give relief to the people. We collected all the data with the help of the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) and NADRA. The deserving people are being looked for at division and district basis, stated Maryam.
The Chief Minister referred that Shehbaz Sharif had also given free flour to people in the last Ramazan. It is good news that in the next three to four months, 120.5 million people will be surveyed, whose salary is less than Rs60,000, will be brought into the data. The data will come in a system and will create ease for the coming governments as well.
Maryam Nawaz said that there is verification, delivery and transparency in the collected data. Currently the process of packing and delivery of Ramzan Nigehban Package is going on and so far, about 80,000 packages have been delivered to the beneficiaries.
She also said that one bag contains 10kg of flour, 2kg of sugar, 2kg of ghee and 2kg of rice, adding that the Punjab Food Authority (PFA) will monitor flour and ghee mills. “Only passed samples are added into the packages and the rest have been abandoned. The flour mills having failed to give quality products have been sealed. The best quality of ghee, rice, flour, gram flour and rice has been added in the package, she said.
The Punjab CM continued to say: ‘We have digitized the delivery system of Ramazan package. “The teams have been formed on Union Councils and localities levels and the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) has designed an Android application for the help of the delivery teams”, she claimed.
“There are 6.5 million bags and all of them have QR scan code on them. The pictures of the package receivers have also been captured which will be kept safe, said the CM.
