” PM Shehbaz increases Ramazan Package to Rs12.5bn ” | GNN INFO

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has increased the volume of Ramazan Package from Rs7.5 billion to Rs12.5 billion, and directed for enhancing its outreach to facilitate the masses during the upcoming holy month.

Along with Utility stores and the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), mobile units would provide edible items at subsidised rates, the PM Office Media Wing said in a press release on Sunday.

In the initial phase, 1,200 mobile points and 300 permanent relief centres will be established. The prime minister wishes that maximum relief should be extended to the poor.

Besides, designated points, trucks would also supply foodstuff to different areas.

On March 7, the prime minister announced a Rs7.5 billion subsidised Ramazan package.

A total of 39.6 million people would be provided food items during the holy month at rates subsidised by 30 percent.

The items under BISP included flour, rice, pulses, ghee, sugar, syrup and milk. The subsidy on flour would be Rs77 per kg and on ghee Rs70, respectively.