Country made record development in PML-N govt tenure: Shehbaz Sharif

LAHORE, Jun 05 (APP):Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said that generating ample electricity was the biggest achievement of the PML-N government during its five years tenure.
“PML-N, if comes to power again after general elections, will build major dams to overcome water crisis,” he added.
Speaking at a news conference, he said, a number of new power generation plants were installed during last five years and added thousands of mega watts electricity to the national grid. He said, 5,000 mega watts electricity was being generated by a few gas run new plants in Punjab alone, which were set up at a total cost of Rs 3 billion. “Punjab government saved billions of rupees by setting up new power plants as well, by completing them before time, which is unprecedented in country’s history,” he claimed.
Answering a question, Shehbaz said, PML-N government was not responsible for the on-going load-shedding.
Harvesting credit of the development works carried out in Punjab, he said, they worked day and night defying allegations leveled by the Tehrik-e-Insaf against the provincial government. “We endured PTI’s accusations for five years but showed the nation who is right and who is wrong,” he said and added, Imran Khan ruined the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhawah and could produce minus six megawatt of electricity. “The electorate will deliver their verdict on who did what while in government,” he said.
He said, the Punjab had spent billions of rupees on promotion of education sector, adding, under the Punjab Educational Endowment Fund, scholarships worth Rs 17 billion had been distributed among 350,000 underprivileged on merit. He said, the province brought 90,000 children working at the brick-kilns to schools by offering their families financial incentives. “Punjab has set up 19 universities and 200 new colleges during the tenure,” he added.
He said, Punjab had brought revolution by developing public transport infrastructure, citing examples of three Metro bus systems, the Orange Line Metro Train Project & Speedo buses.
Shehbaz said, the provincial government had set up state-of-the-art Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute and Research Centre where two kidney transplants had already been conducted successfully.
Recounting the second major achievement of PML-N government, Shehbaz Sharif said, they succeeded in curbing the menace of terrorism and extremism. He paid rich tributes to the efforts and sacrifices rendered by armed forces, and law enforcement agencies during the war against terrorism, during the operations Zarb-e-Azb and Radd-ul-Fasa’ad. “Due to effective measures, backbone of terrorists and their facilitators has been broken and peace has been restored in the country especially Karachi,” he observed.
He lauded the leadership of party supremo Nawaz Sharif and said the federal government under the former prime minister brought about marked improvements in areas of counter-terrorism, energy and economy.