Special arrangements are made by the department to celebrate different religious day for minotries like Christmas, Holi.
Holi
Holi is a Hindu spring festival, also known as the festival of colours or the festival of sharing love. Holi is a two-day festival which starts on the Purnima (Full Moon day) falling in the Bikram Sambat Calendar month of Falgun, which falls somewhere between the end of February and the middle of March in the Gregorian calendar.
Holi grant;is distributed among Hindues by HR&MA department.
Christmas
Punjab Government officially celebrates the religious events of minorities. Christmas 2013 has twice been celebrated and organized by Human Rights & Minorities Affairs Department; one in Governor House, Lahore and other in Chief Minister’ Office, Lahore, where, local Christian leadership and others were invited to celebrate the events with Prime Minister of Pakistan and Chief Minister of Punjab respectively. Chief Minister Punjab had scheduled to grace the Official Christmas Celebration Ceremony 2014 at provincial level in Punjab but the sad incident of school massacre in KPK let the Government decide, not to celebrate even the scheduled official Christmas Celebration Ceremonies in all districts of Punjab.
An amount of Rs.60.000 million was allocated as Economic Package for Minorities for the year 2020-21.
(Rs.50 million for Christians, Rs.7 million for Hindus and Rs.3 Million for Sikh communities and placed in the SDA’s of DCs for further disbursement @Rs. 10,000/- per family on the eve of Christmas, Holi and Birthday of Baba Guru Nanak Gee)