Lahore: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has granted approval to transform seven thousand five hundred villages into model villages. She granted the approval while chairing a meeting on rural development and clean water initiatives in Lahore today.

According to Radio Pakistan, the Chief Minister has set a target to clean stagnant wastewater ponds in villages by June 30 and directed that a dedicated helpline, 1336, be fully activated for the immediate resolution of complaints regarding water filtration plants.

The Chief Minister was briefed that work on transforming four hundred and eighty-five villages into model villages is already underway in the first phase at a cost exceeding fifty-nine billion rupees.