BAHAWALPUR City News

‘Subsidy on fertilisers to provide relief to farmers’

From Our Correspondent

BAHAWALPUR: PML-N MPA Mian Muhammad Shoaib Awaisi has said that the Punjab CM revolutionary measure to extend subsidy on fertilisers to the tune of Rs 39 billion will directly provide financial relief to around 5.2 million families of farmers and peasants in 36 districts of Punjab province.

He made these remarks while talking to a delegation of farmers and notables at his residence here on Tuesday. The MPA said that the Punjab government’s consistent efforts had resulted in reducing the price tag of various fertilisers. MPA Shoaib Awaisi maintained that the reduction of prices in fertilisers would bring economic relief to the tune of Rs 2,200 per acre, which would ultimately reduce per acre expenditures and would extend economic cushion to the peasants across the province.

2 DEAD IN ACCIDENTS: Two people were killed in separate road accidents here on Tuesday.

Muhammad Latif of Khanqah Sharif was crushed to death by a passenger coach near Raman Phattak. In the second accident near Sabzi Mandi, Haroonabad, a passenger coach hit biker Awais of Chak 45/3-R, which caused his instant death.

COMMITS SUICIDE: A man committed suicide at Basti Mehmood Matam on Tuesday.

Muhammad Tariq ended his life by taking poison. The motive behind the incident is said to be a domestic dispute.