KP Government To Launch Rs2 Billion Welfare Projects For Eunuchs

Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published August 01, 2016 | 08:56 PM

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 1st Augst,2016) : The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has announced to initiate welfare projects for eunuchs worth Rs2 billion. A private news channel quoting Social Welfare Department officials said that it was decided in a meeting that evening classes would be arranged for eunuchs at different schools of Peshawar.

They said the government was also planning to construct a residential colony for eunuchs. The officials said the eunuchs would also get free medical treatment under the provincial government's assistance programme and a survey would also be conducted soon to ascertain the exact number of eunuchs in KP. The KP government has allocated special funds for welfare of eunuchs in the budget of fiscal year 2016-17.