Govt taking care of poor families, providing loan with low mark up: Farrukh

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Farrukh Habib has said the government has initiated several public welfare programs and taken significant steps to alleviate poverty in the country.

Talking to a private television channel, he said the government is taking care of poor families and providing their loan at low mark up for construction of their houses.

He said a large number of people had applied for loan to the tunes of 100 billion rupee in total, out of which, loan applications to provide 30 billion rupee loan have been approved. He urged the Opposition parties to come forward and support the public welfare projects of the government for uplift of poor segment of the society.