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No grant for defunct ‘JuD’ in budget: Punjab govt.
LAHORE: Shooting down the media claims regarding allocation of grants for various institutes, schools, hospitals and organizations working under defunct outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawah, Punjab government has simply ruled out accepting any such claim as ‘true’.“No grant has been allocated for banned JuD in Punjab budget”, said Punjab government spokesman. While, according to media reports a total of 82.7 million rupees have been allocated for JuD in supplementary budget of Punjab.
It may be mentioned, government had taken all schools, colleges, hospitals, dispensaries, and Madaris working with JuD under its authority after the outfit was declared defunct and governments’ administrators were appointed as head of those institutions.
Later, the institutions were given grants for continuation of welfare jobs for public by government, but nevertheless, a huge amount of Rs 79.77 million have been allocated for the center of JuD located in Mureedkay in Punjab supplementary budget.
Moreover, Rs 3 million have been fixed for 7 schools of JuD working in different districts of Punjab, media reports said.
Courtesy www.Geo.tv