Lahore, December 10, 2022 (PPI-OT):President Lahore Press Club Azam Chaudhry and Secretary General Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) Rana Muhammad Azeem met with Chief Minister Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi at CM office. CM announced a mega gift for the journalists and accorded approval to allot land for the Journalists Colony Phase 2 in Lahore. The Chief Minister granted approval to allocate 700 kanal land for the Lahore Press Club Housing Scheme Phase 2 and apprised that Journalists Colony Phase 2 will be built in the RUDA area. CM stated that earlier he had announced Journalists Housing Colony Phase 2 comprising 500 kanal land in the Ashiana Housing Scheme but due to shortage of land now granted approval to allocate land for Journalists Housing Colony phase 2 in the RUDA area.
CM maintained that the dream of all journalists will be fulfilled by having their own house with the construction of Journalists Colony Phase 2 comprising 700 kanal of land. The Lahore Press Club staff members will also be given 5, 5 marla plots each and the deceased as well as disabled journalists not having membership of the press club will also be given 5, 5 marla plots each in the Journalists Housing Colony phase 2. Plots will also be allocated for the families of deceased journalists in phase-2. CM assured to resolve the issue of B Block affectees adding that their due rights will be returned to them at the earliest.
CM informed that he already issued directions to the police to launch indiscriminate crackdown against the land- grabber mafia in the Journalists Colony Harbanspura. President Lahore Press Club Azam Chaudhry and Secretary General PFUJ Rana Muhammad Azeem thanked CM Parvez Elahi for granting approval to allocate 700 kanal land for the Journalists Colony Phase 2. Rana Muhammad Azeem stated that the journalists will always remember as earlier the present welfare steps of CM Parvez Elahi for the well- being of journalists adding that the Chief Minister has won the hearts of journalists community by enhancing the land of phase 2 from 500 kanal to 700 kanal.
The present laudable decision of CM Parvez Elahi will change the dream of all journalists for possessing their own house into a reality. Azam Chaudhry remarked that historic steps of CM Parvez Elahi for the welfare of journalists can never be forgotten. Azam Chaudhry acknowledged that CM Parvez Elahi is a real benefactor for the whole journalist’s community as he truly fulfilled the dream of journalists for having their own house. Principal Secretary to CM Muhammad Khan Bhatti, Chairman Ravi Urban Development Authority Zafar Nasrullah, DG LDA Amir Khan, Press Secretary to CM Iqbal Chaudhry and DGPR Rao Parvez Akhtar were also present on the occasion.
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