Mubashar Naqvi
Muzaffarabad
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister, Raja Farooq Haider Khan on Wednesday directed all departments to remain alert to deal with any situation arising out of coronavirus and approved establishment of ‘Corona Combat Fund’. Presiding over a meeting, he said establishment of the fund was to meet the treatment expenses of corona affected patients.
‘Fifteen days salary of ministers, five days from MLAs and grade 21 to 22 government officers, four days salary of grade 19 to 20 and three days from grade 16 to 18 will be deducted for the Corona Combat Fund. Non gazzetted employees have been exempted from their salaries deduction’, the PM said. Raja Farooq Haider Khan directed to suspend traffic from AJK Friday, March 20 onward. However, local transport will ply on their respective routes as normal.
He said all out efforts were being made to provide best available medical facilities to the affected persons and directed the concerned officials to provide necessary equipments to PM House Muzaffarabad which had been converted into quarantine center. The prime minister directed commissioners to setup quarantine centers in all the three divisions in AJK and report on daily basis.
