Provincial Minister for Labour and Human Resource Raja Ashfaq Sarwar has stressed upon the need to boost up pace of work of on-going residential and development schemes for labourers and their families with the direction to maintain strict transparency and merit. He said this during a meeting with newly-appointed Secretary Punjab Workers Welfare Board (PWWB) Syed Waqar Hussain on Tuesday.
The Secretary PWWB briefed the minister about the status of schemes and said 100 percent work on Labour Colony Warburton, Nankana Sahib, with the total cost of Rs 926.126 million comprising 208 flats, separate higher schools for both boys and girls, community center, mosque and other basic amenities has been completed.
He informed that the DCO Nankana Sahib has been requested to complete the allotment process so as to enable the Board to inaugurate this colony at the earliest. Work on Labour Welfare Complex with the total amount of Rs 3017.847 million comprising 992 flats and other facilities is underway and 60 percent work has been completed, he added.