In an ceremony in Sanghar on Saturday 24th February, the Prime Minister, Raja Parvez Ashraf inaugurated a number of telecommunications and health and education projects of worth Rs. 1.7 billion. During his speech on the occassion he said that the social and economic development of the country was linked to the growth in telecom sector and that the government was putting its best efforts to bring all parts of the country at the same level.
The efforts of Universal Service Fund (USF) are the depiction of the efforts of the government where USF was able to provide basic telephony and data services to 213 villages in Mirpurkhas and 426 villages in Dadu with subsidies of Rs. 930 million and Rs 250 million respectively under their Rural Telecom Project.Under their Optic Fibre programme, 1038 kilometre optic fibre cable has been laid via a subsidy of Rs. 449 million due to which 17 unserved tehsils of Sindh have been connected. Moreover, 77 cities and towns in Southern Telecom Region-I were connected under the Broad-band programme with the help of a subsidy of Rs. 549 million.
The Prime Minister inaugurated local development projects including rehabilitation of a Basic Health Unit (BHU), a primary school, up-gradation of a middle school of girls to high school, repair of bridge at Chak 11, installation of street lights and electric poles and a water filtration plant.
Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf also inaugurated ten classrooms of Commerce Block at Government Degree College Sanghar and an additional 10 rooms at the Government High School Sanghar, which were constructed for Rs 15.046 million and Rs 9.988 million respectively.
Prime Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf also inaugurated ten classrooms of Commerce Block at Government Degree College Sanghar and an additional 10 rooms at the Government High School Sanghar, which were constructed for Rs 15.046 million and Rs 9.988 million respectively.
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