Parvez Elahi gets Rs37.74 supplementary grant for Gujrat okayed

By: Ali Ramay
Published: 07:50 PM, 7 Sep, 2022
Parvez Elahi gets Rs37.74 supplementary grant for Gujrat okayed
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Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has succeeded in getting approved a supplementary grant of more than Rs37 billion for Gujrat despite the ban, 24NewsHD TV channel reported

The grant of Rs 37.74 billion was approved in just a month, state the documents. Even the summary of the supplementary grant for the Chief Minister's city Gujarat was not presented in the Punjab Cabinet.

The approval was taken from the cabinet’s standing committee. 

A supplementary grant of more than 15 billion rupees has been approved for the construction of flyover and double carriageway roads in Gujarat, according to the documents.

No objection was raised and no feasibility report was made. On the orders of CM, the bureaucracy turned a blind eye and approved the funds.

Ali Ramay is a Senior Investigative Reporter associated with Pakistan's City News Network (CNN). He has been associated with the CNN group since 2013 and mainly covers investigative stories in departments under the Punjab Government.