{"id":34520,"date":"2022-01-20T02:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?p=34520"},"modified":"2022-01-20T00:10:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T19:10:15","slug":"big-cities-are-engine-of-development-progress-pm-imran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/pakistan-news\/big-cities-are-engine-of-development-progress-pm-imran\/","title":{"rendered":"Big cities are engine of development, progress: PM Imran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad January 19 (Online): Prime Minister Imran Khan said that \u201cWe are laying special focus on the development of big cities as they are the real engines of growth for the national economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was chairing a meeting on Plan for Big Cities in Islamabad on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to rural to urban areas migration, the cities are facing multiple challanges including housing, job opportunities and civic amenities are scarce. It is necessary that work on special development packages for the big cities must be accelerated,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister directed the authorities concerned to take all possible measures to clear hiccups in the way of completion of various development schemes in big cities on priority basis in order to provide maximum relief to the residents.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister also directed the authorities to work in close coordination and launch a concerted campaign for the uplift and development of big cities like Kaeachi, Lahore, Multan, Faisalsbad, Rawalpindi and Gujranwala.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by Information Minister Ch Fawad Hussain, Industries Minister Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, and Planning Minister Asad Umar. Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood, Governor Punjab Ch Muhammad Sarwar and Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar joined the meeting via video link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad January 19 (Online): Prime Minister Imran Khan said that \u201cWe are laying special focus on the development of big cities as they are the real engines of growth for the national economy.\u201d He was chairing a meeting on Plan for Big Cities in Islamabad [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16058,16059],"class_list":["post-34520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news","tag-big-cities-are-engine-of-development","tag-progress-pm-imran"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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