RAWALPINDI — Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar would inaugurate Rawalpindi shelter home next week as all the arrangements were being finalized, said Chairman Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) Arif Abbasi on Sunday.
Talking to media Abbasi said that a shelter home, to provide proper accommodation facility to homeless people, would be inaugurated next week.
The project was being launched to facilitate the poor and initially arrangements for 150 persons were being made in the basement of Raja Bazar Parking Plaza, however, the facility would be enhanced gradually for 600 to 700 homeless citizens, he added.
“The project is aimed at restoring the self-respect of those who spend the night under the open sky,” he said and added that it was also aimed at broadening the circle of the state’s social responsibility.
The chairman also said that expenditures of the shelter home would be borne through donations by philanthropists.
RDA had planned to establish the shelter in the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC) building on main Liaquat Road, in front of Government Gordon.
Prime Minister Imran Khan had directed the Punjab government to establish a shelter home in Rawalpindi so people who sleep in the open could sleep at the safe place during the harsh winter and could be provided three times meals.
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Last Month, Prime Minister Imran Khan had laid the foundation stone of the Punjab government’s shelter homes project in Lahore.
The project is aimed at restoring the self-respect of those people who spend the night under the open sky. It is also aimed at broadening the circle of social responsibility by the state and citizens.
