No discrimination against any city in provincial Budget 2020-21: Bakht.

LAHORE -- Punjab Minister for Finance Hashim Jawan Bakht on Friday said that no discrimination was made with any of the city in the provincial Budget 2020-21.

Talking to the mediamen after the assembly session, he said that social sector investment was unavoidable in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic and Lahore was on the top of the list for allocations made for saving people from coronavirus. He said, how rulers could give priority to Orange Line Metro

Train (OLMT) in a province where four patients were laying on a single bed in hospitals.

He believed that if hospitals were given equal importance likewise infrastructure development projects then the situation to control COVID-19 was altogether different.

Bakht mentioned the incumbent government activated the Lahore and other development authorities of the province for the infrastructure development projects, besides promoting the Public Private Partnership (PPP) for infrastructure projects.

He said, the construction of Southern loop of Lahore Ring Road under public-private partnership at a cost of Rs 10 billion was already approved.

He said, the work on modern public hospital announced in the Budget 2019-20 would be started in the next Budget 2020-21. Further, working on the missing

facilities in the hospitals was already started before the budget, he...