New budget offers special relief to people: Sharjeel

karachi: Sindh Senior Minister for Information Sharjeel Inam Memon has said Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has presented a historical and people-friendliest budget of his government for the new financial year.

He stated this on Friday while talking to media persons soon after the budget session of the provincial assembly.

He claimed that new budget contained measures to extend the maximum relief to the masses. He said the government had been constructing one of the largest housing initiatives in the world for providing accommodation facilities to the flood victims in the province. He said the government would build 2.1 million houses for the flood victims.

Memon said the new provincial budget contained solar energy initiatives to electrify a number of villages in the province. He said the solar energy project of the government aimed at providing cheap electricity to the less-privileged power consumers.

He said special relief measures contained in the new budget were aimed at the people belonging to the salaried class, keeping in view the prevailing economic conditions.