{"id":70622,"date":"2020-09-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=70622"},"modified":"2020-09-17T16:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T11:04:00","slug":"punjab-doubles-financial-assistance-amount-deserving-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-doubles-financial-assistance-amount-deserving-minorities.html","title":{"rendered":"Punjab doubles financial assistance amount for deserving minorities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has announced its decision to double the financial assistance amount for deserving minorities, according to a news source. It has increased this ceiling from PKR 5,000 to PKR 10,000 per person, in addition to drafting a plan for the security and renovation of churches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kp-to-launch-apna-rozgar-scheme-housing-scheme-for-minorities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KP to launch Apna Rozgar Scheme, housing scheme for minorities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provincial Minister for Human Rights and Minority Affairs Ejaz Alam Augustine announced these decisions while addressing a function where he disbursed relief cheques among the Christian community at the Tehsil Council Hall Sahiwal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Augustine also stated that the government was planning to resolve the issues faced by minority communities on a priority basis. He also revealed that over 171 members of the Christian community in the Sahiwal District had received financial assistance cheques worth PKR 10,000 per person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/kamyab-jawan-initiative-include-youth-from-minorities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kamyab Jawan initiative to include youth from minorities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the minister said that Prime Minister Imran Khan was taking a personal interest in preserving the rights of minorities and giving them their due rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The Punjab government has announced its decision to double the financial assistance amount for deserving minorities, according to a news source. It has increased this ceiling from PKR 5,000 to PKR 10,000 per person, in addition to drafting a plan for the security and renovation of churches. Read: KP to launch Apna Rozgar Scheme, housing scheme for minorities Provincial Minister for Human Rights and Minority Affairs Ejaz Alam Augustine announced these decisions while addressing a function where he disbursed relief cheques among the Christian community at the Tehsil Council Hall Sahiwal. Augustine also stated that the government was planning to resolve the issues faced by minority communities on a priority basis. He also revealed that over 171 members of the Christian community in the Sahiwal District had received financial assistance cheques worth PKR 10,000 per person. Read: Kamyab Jawan initiative to include youth from minorities Additionally, the minister said that Prime Minister Imran Khan was taking a personal interest in preserving the rights of minorities and giving them their due rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":60804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15020],"tags":[39703,39704],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-developments","8":"tag-financial-assistance","9":"tag-minorities","10":"cat-15020-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab ups financial assistance for deserving minorities - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Punjab government has doubled the financial assistance amount distributed among deserving minorities from PKR 5,000 to PKR 10,000.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-doubles-financial-assistance-amount-deserving-minorities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab ups financial assistance for deserving minorities - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Punjab government has doubled the financial assistance amount distributed among deserving minorities from PKR 5,000 to PKR 10,000.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-doubles-financial-assistance-amount-deserving-minorities.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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