Punjab cabinet declares 13,700 acre area in Salt Range as National Park.

LAHORE -- Punjab Cabinet which met here Thursday at a local hotel decided to develop Sambli (North) Reserve Forest in Salt Range as National Park.

A formal notification in this regard was also issued after the meeting. Spreading over an area of 13,700 acres, cutting of trees and hunting would be banned in this park, and the land would not be utilized for any other purpose.

Chairing the 31st meeting of the provincial cabinet, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar also directed to constitute a management committee to oversee the park affairs.

Also, the cabinet approved the appointment of Maj. (R) Azam Suleman as the provincial Ombudsman. Azam Suleman sought pre-mature retirement as federal secretary interior earlier this week to qualify for the post. The cabinet also decided to constitute a committee under the chair of Senior Minister Abdul Aleem Khan to formulate interim wheat policy 2020-21. This committee will submit its policy recommendations for releasing wheat to the flour mills.

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The CM appreciated the performance of Senior Minister Abdul Aleem Khan as well as the Food Department for procuring record wheat reserves during the current season saying that bumper wheat stocks had been purchased for the first time after a gap of ten years.

The Chief Minister noted that Punjab government had now ample wheat reserves and full attention will be paid to providing relief to the common man while formulating wheat release policy. Buzdar maintained the incumbent government was creating ease for the indigent stratum and welfare of the impecunious families will be fully taken care of while formulating policy about the release of wheat to the flour mills. He also directed the ministers to proactively attend the budget session.

The cabinet also gave its approval for amendments in the Cooperative Societies Act, 1925 and The Punjab Undesirable Cooperative Societies Dissolution Act, 1993.

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Provincial Ministers, Advisors, Special Assistants, Chief Secretary and administrative secretaries attended the meeting.

Assembly members

call on CM

Provincial Ministers and MPAs called on Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar at his chamber set up in a local hotel here on Thursday and apprised him about their constituency related problems.

While issuing directions to solve their problems, the CM maintained that full attention had been...