LAHORE Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the PML-N considers service to the masses as a kind of worship and, under the leadership of PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif, it is implementing a comprehensive programme for the rapid development of the province and people welfare. Talking to assembly members belonging to various districts here on Saturday, he said, Prosperity of the people and provision of basic amenities to them is our agenda and all resources are being utilised for its accomplishment. Development schemes are being completed on priority basis in backward and less-developed areas. Elected representatives apprised the CM of pace of ongoing development schemes and problems of the people of their respective areas. MNA Hanif Abbasi, and MPAs Arifa Khalid Pervaiz, Naeem Akhtar Bhabha, Shaukat Manzoor Cheema and Imran Nazir called on him. Shahbaz said revolutionary steps had been taken for provision of modern facilities of education and health to the people, particularly Southern Punjab and other backward areas. Besides setting up Daanish Schools equipped with latest educational facilities in the less-developed areas of the province, mobile health units are being provided for provision of best medical facilities to the people of these areas at their doorstep. New era of development will usher in the backward areas through setting up of Daanish Schools and the students of these areas after getting modern knowledge from these institutions will play their role in the development of the country, he said, adding that this was an achievement of government of PML-N which had materialised the dream of access to modern knowledge by ensuring provision of better educational facilities than prestigious institutions of the country to the children of poorest parents at their doorstep. About mobile health units, he mentioned that these had started working in flood affected areas whereas such mobile health units were being provided at Tehsil level under a phased programme. Work is in progress on the Aashiyana Housing Project speedily for providing shelter to the shelterless people. After Lahore, work has also been started on low-cost housing schemes in Jhelum, Sahiwal, Faisalabad and Sargodha, he mentioned. Shahbaz also talked about development of the infrastructure and promotion of economic activities. Besides repair and construction of old roads, a network of new roads, underpasses and flyovers is being laid, he added.