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Govt wins hearts of masses by presenting people-friendly budget: Ehsan

SIALKOT, May 27 (APP): Federal Minister for Planning,
Development and Reforms Ehsan Iqbal on Saturday said
the PML-N government had won hearts of the masses by
presenting people and business friendly budget.
He said this while talking to reporters after
inaugurating tough tiles affixing project in Narowal.
The minister said people-friendly budget protected
rights of the people belonging to all spheres of life
besides covering their needs and demands as well.
He said the business-friendly budget would also keep
the industrial wheel moving ahead towards the goal of the
economic stability besides giving the boost to the
industrial sector.
The minister said the PML-N government had completed
record welfare and human development-oriented projects in
the country under the dynamic leadership of Prime
Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.
He said the government was also successfully fulfilling
its all public promises and commitments in the country.
Ehsan Iqbal said the federal government had
allocated Rs 9.5 billion for the construction of four
lane Sialkot-Lahore Motorway via Narang Mandi for connecting
Narowal region with this motorway as well,adding that the
work was briskly underway in Sialkot district’s various
rural parts for establishing the Sialkot-Lahore Motorway
mega project.
He said the government had also allocated Rs 3 billion
for the construction of main Sialkot-Pasrur-Narowal Road
and its conversion into a dual carriageway.