LAHORE: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz met a delegation led by World Bank Regional Vice President Martin Raiser here on Monday and agreed to undertake joint measures for poverty alleviation, making further improvements in the IT, infrastructure sectors, resolving environmental problems and social development.

Matters pertaining to accelerating the pace of ongoing World Bank projects in Punjab along with launching new projects were also discussed.

He said Punjab`s projects were in conformity with the World Bank`s `country partnership`. The delegation offered its complete cooperation for environmental improvement along with improving the sanitation system in the province.

It declared the initiative to merge the Population Welfare Department with the Health Department as appreciable. Mr Raiser hoped that the merger of the population welfare with the health department would provide better services to the people.