Steps being taken to improve people’s lot: CM Punjab Usman Buzdar

LAHORE:Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Monday said that the government was taking practical measures for improving the living standard of people.

He said reforms were being introduced in the public departments and institutions according to the modern day demands and the government initiatives would yield positive results, said a handout issued here.

Usman Buzdar said that Punjab was being changed and it would emerge as an exemplary province in the journey of change. Former culture of spending national exchequer for personal use had been eliminated, he said, adding that former rulers spent national resources for showoff and personal projection.

The public offices are now adopting the culture of austerity, as under the campaign the expenses of CM Office had been reduced by 60 percent, the CM said. The PTI government had laid the foundation of a corruption-free society and justice for all in the province.

He said that mega corruption scandal surfaced during the previous regimes. It was the pride of the PTI government that not a single scandal of corruption surfaced during the last over one and a half years. Menace of corruption would be curbed from Pakistan under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan, he concluded.