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SIALKOT, Nov 2: The provincial government will soon announce incentives for labourers and take steps for promoting good working relationship between employers and employees in all industrial units of Punjab.
Punjab Labour and Human Resources Minister Syed Akhtar Husain Rizvi stated this while talking to the press here on Wednesday.
He said as many as 16 labour welfare projects would be completed during the current fiscal year in Punjab with a total cost of Rs1 billion as the construction work was briskly under way on the directions of the chief minister.
The provincial minister said two social security hospitals having a capacity of 100 beds each would be built at Sialkot and Shahdara-Lahore.
He said the government would soon set up more labour colonies, schools and social security hospitals in the areas having majority of industrial workers and labourers.
The minister said the government would also establish several labour training centres in industrial cities for producing skilled force.
He said work on 1,000 residential flats for labourers, a community centre, a social security hospital at Sambrial-Sialkot and a labour complex at Chawinda-Pasrur would be started soon.
GAS SUPPLY: The federal government has released a special grant of Rs10 million for early provision of gas to Sambrial tehsil’s five villages — Kot Bhagat, Warsaalkey, Gadiyala West, Aadamkey and Adda Warsaalkey.
State Minister for Privatization and Investment, Umer Ahmad Ghuman, said this while talking to the press at Kotli Noonan village here on Wednesday.
He said work on this project would be started in December.
The state minister said the government had also released Rs8 million for construction of a small bridge over Aik Nullah for providing better communication facilities to the people of Bhopalwala and dozens of surrounding villages, including Puraaneyki, Warsaalkey, Lamhey and Dhey.
ARMS SEIZED: The Daska city police raided the outhouse of tehsil councillor Muhammad Afzal Mansha in Islampura locality and arrested him for possessing illicit arms.
Police also recovered five rifles from his possession, sent him behind the bars and registered a case against him.
