*KARACHI: Federal Minister for Water Resources Faisal Vawda will launch his‘Self-Employment Scheme’ on Friday from NA-249 (Baldia) constituency ofKarachi. *
The scheme is introduced to provide job and business opportunities; itwould initially support 1,000 people by distributing cheaques worth Rs30million.
The scheme would not use any funds from the federal or provincialgovernments, instead, all money would be bore by Faisal Vawda and otherwell-off segment of the society.
It may be recalled that two months earlier, Vawda wrote a letter to thechief minister of Sindh, offering personal cooperation for the provision offacilities to the people of the constituency.
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He stated, in his letter, that the people of NA-249 were deprived of thebasic needs like healthcare, clean water and education.
The federal minister had offered to bear the expenses of setting upschools, RO (reverse osmosis) plants and dispensaries in the area, besidespaying for the education and medical treatment expenditures.
