LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Social Welfare and Baitulmal Department (SW and BM) Syed Yawar Abbas Bukhari has warned that goals of sustainable development couldn’t be achieved without control on population.
He was addressing a consultative dialogue arranged jointly by the Economic Division and United Nations Sustainable Development Framework (UNSDF) here today. MPAs, bureaucrats, academics and other stakeholders also participated.
For the first time, said the minister, the Punjab government has approved a development package for each district, making it easy to address local problems at the grassroots. Yawar Abbas Bukhari urged that without political will the dream of sustainable development couldn’t be achieved saying that the participation of elected representatives should be enhanced.
He told the participants that the SW and BM department would set up a first responders network at the village level to redress child abuse issues. He said that first responders would be trained by rescue 1122. Family support program would also be launched for abused women and children because police and other government institutions could not play such roles as relatives of abused children could have in traumas, observed the minister.