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SIALKOT, Oct 3: The Gujranwala Electric Power Company (GEPCO) will spend Rs10 million for the purchase of safety gadgets for its employees to reduce accidents in the Gujranwala division.
This was stated by Gepco chief executive Brig Saifullah Khalid while speaking at a seminar on “self-protection of Gepco employees and its demands” here on Friday.
He directed the Gepco employees not to work on main power lines without T&P and other protective gadgets.
District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid and Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union secretary-general Khurshid Ahmad were also present on the occasion.
BAITUL MAAL: The Baitul Maal will provide a Rs300,000 financial assistance to each poor kidney, heart and cancer patient admitted to government hospitals.
This was stated by Punjab Baitul Maal director Lt-Col Syed Ahmad Nadeem Qadri (retired) while speaking at a meeting held here on Friday. District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid presided the meeting.
Mr Qadri said that Rs50,000 financial assistance would also be given to the unemployed youth under a special rehabilitation programme so that they could start their small business.
The District Nazim directed all the poor and deserving students to contact the Zila Nazim office for getting their higher education with the special funds provided by the Baitul Maal.
STOLEN: Around 36 transformers of the Wapda have been stolen in Sialkot and Narowal districts during the last one year.
This was disclosed by standing committee chairman on Gepco Mian Muhammad Anwar while talking to the newsmen here on Friday.
He said the rising theft incidents of transformers had badly affected the working of factories and farming sector, causing heavy financial losses to traders and farmers.
He condemned Gepco authorities for forcibly collecting heavy charges from consumers for the installation of new transformers in place of the stolen ones.
Mr Anwar urged Gepco chief executive Brig Saifullah Khalid to redress the grievances of industrialists in this regard.
SUSPENDED: The Gujranwala Range DIG on Friday suspended Saddar SHO Farhat Mehmood Bhatti on account of negligence.
A strict departmental probe has also been ordered against him.
