26 sites identified for Aashiana Housing Project In Punjab
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif during a meeting on Friday gave a briefing to PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif regarding the low-cost housing scheme called Aashiana.
The CM said that Aashiana Housing Project for providing accommodation to low-income people had started from Lahore and its scope would be extended throughout the province. He said 26 sites had been identified for low-cost schemes in different districts of the province, adding that Aashiana was a welfare scheme of the Punjab government which would realize the dream of the poor to have their own houses.
Shahbaz directed the chief secretary to collect details of the vacant lands of all government departments in the province for the Aashiana scheme and report him within 10 days. Nawaz Sharif further said that not only elite but 170 million people of the country also had right to national resources. He said the Punjab government should select land for the project in cities or near to cities so that the common man should not face any difficulty. He said planning should also be made for setting up small cities near the Motorway and provision of all facilities should be ensured for checking the trend of migration to the big cities. 
