MIRPUR, May 17: AJK Minister for Revenue Chaudhry Tariq Farooq has said that a plan was being evolved to provide residential facilities to low-paid government employees in Azad Jammu & Kashmir.

He was speaking at the oath taking ceremony of the office-bearers of AJK Non-gazetted Employees Organization, Mirpur district, late Friday.

Mr Farooq said that under the plan colonies would be carved out to house employees of BPS 1 to 15 in all the seven districts of AJK.

He said that the residential plots, measuring six Marla each, would be allotted to the employees on low rates.

The minister said that the plan would soon be moved in the next cabinet committee meeting in Muzaffarabad for final approval.

He said that the AJK government, with the financial assistance of the federal government, had planned welfare policies to raise the living standard of the common man including the low-paid public servants.—APP