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Rs 200 billion to be spent on poverty
alleviation programme: Rind
ISLAMABAD (April 22
2004): Minister for Food, Agriculture and
Livestock, Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind on Wednesday
said that the government will spend Rs 200 billion
on poverty alleviation programme to improve living
standard of the masses.
He said the government is very concerned about the
poverty and preparing an affective strategy to
resolve people's problems as 32 percent of the
citizens are living below poverty line, majority
of which belonged to rural areas.
The Minister stated this while speaking at
inaugural session of National Agriculture
Conference here on Wednesday at National
Agriculture Research Centre.
Yar Muhammad Rind said poverty alleviation is a
very sensitive issue as it poses serious threat to
the national development, which is suffering due
to lack of education, health care.
He said, "Agriculture in Pakistan is the largest
single sector of the economy, ahead of
manufacturing, and accounts for 24 percent of the
total gross domestic product (GDP)."
"It contributes to the national economic growth as
a supplier of raw materials to industry as well as
a market for industrial products and also
contributes to Pakistan's exports earnings," he
said adding, "about 68 per cent of the country's
population lives in rural areas and directly or
indirectly depends on agriculture for their
living."
He said that we have to follow an aggressive
viable strategy to alleviate poverty and bring
about improvement in the lifestyle of the masses.
Chairman Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC),
Dr Badaruddin Soomro, while presenting welcome
address, said recently micro credit schemes have
been introduced as a tool for reducing poverty in
the country and bringing deprived and down trodden
masses into the mainstream.
Courtesy Business Recorder |
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Pakissan.com; Advisory Point
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