OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said people of Pakistan have pinned great hopes with the Pakistan Muslim League-N and, under PML-N Chief Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, the Party will come up to their expectations and put the country on the road to progress and prosperity by steering it out of crisis and make it a great country. Our each step will move forward for strengthening the country, regaining its honour and dignity and for the welfare of the common man, we will not hesitate to render any sacrifice for the security of the country. We will provide basic amenities to the people at their doorstep in consultation with elected representatives and transparent utilisation of each penny of the public money will be ensured, he said, adding the Punjab budget reflected peoples aspirations and its pivot was to eliminate poverty, ignorance and putting the province on the road to progress. He was addressing to Members Provincial Assembly belonging to Gujranwala Division at CMs Secretariat here on Saturday. Senior Advisor Sirdar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah Khan, MNA Hamza Shahbaz Sharif, Chairman Planning & Development, Secretaries of various departments and administrative and police officers of Gujranwala Division were also present on the occasion. Shahbaz Sharif said service to the people was mission, and mega projects were being completed speedily throughout the province for provision of education, health, clean drinking water and other basic amenities to the people and bringing the deprived segments of the society into national main stream. He mentioned that the priorities of next annual development programme had also been fixed keeping in view the needs of the masses. He mentioned that provision of interest free loans to the youth under self-employment scheme, yellow cab taxi scheme and provision of state land to the agriculture graduates in the budget were such steps as would help eliminate poverty and unemployment from the province. He said huge funds had been allocated for the public welfare projects in the budget. He also said the Daanish school system was the best project of providing modern educational facilities to the children of poorest parents. The Aashiyana housing scheme and Daanish schools are such welfare projects of Punjab government, which will help eliminate economic disparity and will realise to the poor and common man that they have also equal right over resources, he said, adding that only those people were criticising welfare projects for the poor who had nothing to do with their welfare. Why are those objecting on the establishment of Daanish schools for the children of poorest parents silent over the educational institutions like Aitchison, grammar, LUMS and cadet colleges for children of rich people, he questioned? He said the police officers should make police stations as source of providing justice, and government officers should become Khadim (servant) of the masses and keep the doors of their offices open for resolution of their problems. He mentioned that committees had been constituted for eliminating adulteration in eatable items, spurious drugs, short measuring and price-hike and these had been made fully empowered. He said the campaign launched against encroachment and Qabza mafia had yielded positive results. Qabza mafia will not be tolerated at any cost, and the state land to be retrieved from Qabza mafia through out the province will be utilised for welfare projects, he said, while mentioning that Rs 8 billion had been allocated for the generation of energy from coal, cane-trash and other sources, and work on projects would start from this year. He directed that meetings with regard to law and order and development projects should be held regularly in all districts and if any complaint was received with regard to holding of these meetings, the concerned authorities would be held responsible. He said like cities, special attention should also be paid to the improvement of infrastructure in villages. He asked the Assembly Members to be ready for service to the people and utilise all their energies for the resolution of their problems. The elected representatives should ensure transparent and timely completion of development schemes of their respective areas, he directed.