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Punjab govt facilitates sanitary workers

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Punjab government decided to increase the allowance of the sewer men by Rs 5000, besides allocation of health cards, provision of safety kits and equipment to protect from disease spread from unhygienic conditions.
Additionally, a Rescue 1122 type services to resolve the sewerage issues is also on the cards along with provision of modern equipped vans for digging the holes and access to the deep sewerages. The decision was made in a cabinet standing committee for finance, chaired by Punjab Finance Minister Hashim Jawan Bakht and attended by the Punjab Industry Minister Mian Aslam Iqbal and other officials concerned.
Hashim observed that the staff doing cleanliness was equally respectful as any other government official. However, no one ever raised voice for them in the system while the current government priority was mainly uplifting the people living the below the poverty lines.
He said the government will give marriage grants for the water and sanitation workers and also jobs to heirs of the workers died during duties.
The meeting also discussed other 16 agenda items out of which hiring of people for Aab Paak Authority and establishment of Bhawalpur Industrial Estate. The minister instructed that all departments first submit justification for hiring of new people to the committee.
He also instructed the energy department to improve the efficiency besides bringing cheap energy generation projects in province.
He asked the industry department that creation of industrial estate should not be limiting to boundary wall likewise the past. Instead, these industrial estates should be developed quickly for industrialization and jobs creation in the country.

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