Provincial Industries and Trade Minister Mian Aslam Iqbal presided over the fourth meeting of task force for providing financial assistance in which progress relating to data collection about affected labourers and daily wagers owing to lockdown came under review.
Provincial Labour Minister Ansar Majeed Khan, Industries and Trade Secretary Zafar Iqbal and Task Force members attended the meeting. Aslam Iqbal while addressing the participants maintained that registration process of labourers becoming unemployed and daily wagers is ongoing. Data of labourers and daily wagers from formal and informal sector is also being accumulated, he added.
The minister informed that after completion of aforesaid assignment in coming days, its comprehensive report will be submitted to the chief minister. Aslam Iqbal assured that every labourer and daily wager becoming unemployed due to lockdown will be provided financial assistance. He further underscored that government is standing by the distressed masses in this hour of affliction and is also fully aware about the agonies and problems of unemployed segment of society.
He emphasized that the labourer and daily wagers will also be benefitted with the opening of construction sector and by granting fiscal relief package. The weak and downtrodden segment is also being provided fiscal aid through Ehsaas Khifalat Programme, concluded Aslam Ibqal.
