Lahore September 18 (Online): Speaker Punjab Assembly Ch Parvez Elahi has said that farmer is 88 per cent important segment of the country and facilitating them is in benefit of whole country.
He said during our tenure as the Chief Minister farmers with less than twelve and half acres were exempted from tax which benefited 88 percent segment, fixed flat for abiana, for the first time water theft ended, not only punishment for water theft was increased but also telemetric system was promoted and laser levelers were provided to every Union Council so that water usage is reduced and production is increased, barrages were constructed in different areas besides restoration and repairs of Taunsa Barrage, lining of canals was undertaken, 450 kilometers concrete water courses were made so that water reaches up to tail.
He said this while addressing the first meeting of Punjab Assembly’s Special Committee on Agriculture here on Friday.
Ch Parvez Elahi said that Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser during the assembly session on March 16, 2019 on a motion formed the Special Committee on Agriculture which held numerous meetings; he formed a sub-committee of it and also signed an agreement with the agriculture universities of the country including Faisalabad Agriculture University which help the committee on different matters.
