MULTAN City News

PTI terms budget a failure of PML-N govt
From Our Correspondent
MULTAN: The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf activists on Saturday staged a demonstration at Chungi No 6 against the federal budget and termed it a failure of the PML-N government.
The PTI activists led by Wasim Khan protested and rejected the budget terming it anti-people. The protesters chanted slogans against the government and said that the budget had broken the back of already hard-pressed masses. Speaking on the occasion, Waseem Khan said that all sections of the society had rejected the budget. He said that it was a bundle of lie and unrealistic figures. No incentive was given to agriculture, farmers, spinning and textile related industry in the budget, he added. He said that the government had failed to provide relief to a common man in the budget. He said that the government had made tall claims of cutting down the expenditures of the Prime Minister House, Chief Minister houses and the Presidency but no such step was taken. He said that the PTI was expecting removal of innovative taxes but no such announcement had been made.

PEF starts distributing vouchers among school partners
From Our Correspondent
MULTAN: The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has started distributing 50,000 nominated vouchers to its 450 school partners associated under the Education Voucher Scheme in southern districts of the province.
The vouchers distribution has already been completed at Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur and Rajanpur districts, a spokesman for the PEF said. He said that a special desk had been set-up at the PEF regional office in Multan under the supervision of Regional Director Shafiq Ahmad to distribute vouchers among the school partners. For this purpose, schedule of vouchers’ distribution had been uploaded at the PEF official website for the convenience of partners from the districts of Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, Rajanpur, DG Khan, Khanewal, Lodhran, Layyah, Multan, Muzaffargarh, and Rahimyar Khan, he informed. The spokesperson said that new vouchers would help to arrange free schooling for deserving students in these districts through the PEF partner schools. The vouchers’ distribution would be completed by the 18th of this month, he added.