Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has launched a project for the delivery of artificial limbs, hearing aids, wheelchairs and other aids worth RS1 billion to various activated people in the province. More than 300 special people from all over Punjab participated in the inauguration ceremony, which CM said the recipients will get rollers, tricycle, manual, electric and motorized wheelchairs, hikers, hit mobile toilet chairs, pillows, hearing aids and artificial limbs to their needs."

She said, "Punjab has become the first province of Pakistan to have the ability to rehabilitate disabled people and make their lives as active as normal people through Bionics technology."

She added, "The world’s most expensive and latest artificial limbs made with bionik technology have the ability to move according to the brain’s signals."

Main Minister Maryam Nawaz mounted six -year -old Sohail, who had lost his arm under the elbow of an electric shock, with an artificial arm developed through the technology. The artificial arm moves automatically when it receives signals from the brain. The boy moved for the first time after the accident and expressed his happiness by clapping. Main Minister Maryam Nawaz shook his hands with Sohail and gave him a tall five. The minister was also chairman of a meeting to review the acquisition and recovery of loans under Apni Chhat, the Apna Ghar program for housing. Given public interest, a proposal to include several business banks in the housing scheme was considered at the meeting. Participants were informed in a briefing that 28,219 families had received interest -free loans worth RS 30 billion in five months. More than 23,500 houses are in their last stages of completion during the program.