Now the girl students will move on pink scooties that will be provided by Shahbaz Sharif.
The chief minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif is going to take an initiative step for girl students. Like laptop scheme, loan scheme, yellow cab scheme and many more others, now Shahbaz Sharif is bringing pink scooty schemes for the girls of universities and colleges.
This scheme will be launched firstly in Lahore city and then gradually it will penetrate in the other cities of Punjab. This project was announced about a year ago and it was announced that in the next annual budget this project will be started. Bank of Punjab is an official partner of Punjab Government in this project. The ladies will have to fill a registration form for getting registered with the scheme and the government of Punjab will provide scooties to the merit based girls and ladies on instalments. The interest on these instalments will be paid by the Punjab government.
Government of Punjab has assigned the task of manufacturing of pink scooties to the engineering department of UET (University of Engineering and Technology) and transport department of Punjab government. He has said that the pink scooties must be reliable and easy to drive for girls. The Chinese company will manufacture these 50cc scooties having the cost of PKR 80,000 per scooty. There will be a contract between the manufacturing departments of Pakistan and China.
