Parvez deposits Rs25.6m in CM Relief Fund

Punjab Assembly Speaker Parvez Elahi has deposited more than Rs25 million in the Chief Minister Relief Fund for meeting monetary needs in war on coronavirus.

The deposited amount is a sum of donation by all the PA members and secretariat staff coping with the challenge.

PA speaker, deputy speaker, MPAs and assembly secretariat staff above 18 grade donated their one month salary while grade 16 and 17 employees donated half-month salary for the cause.

Chief Minister Usman Buzdar thanked Speaker Parvez and other donors, saying that such steps will motivate other well-off people.

Parvez called for unity to get over corona crisis, saying: “We have to fight off corona with unity. Assembly members and staff joined hands for the cause.” He made an appeal to philanthropists for playing their part for the cause.