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| December 23, 2005 | Friday | Ziqa’ad 20, 1426 |
1,675 Gepco employees regularized
GUJRANWALA, Dec 22: Around 1,675 employees of the Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco), including 35 junior engineers, were regularized while 489 employees of various cadres were promoted during the current year. This was stated by Gepco chief executive Brig Saifullah Khalid while speaking at an open forum here on Thursday.
He pointed out that 447 employees were recruited on direct quota while 108 on employees’ son quota during the year on merit.
The Gepco chief said that Rs6.8 million were provided to the employees after reviewing their applications for marriage grant while all pending cases of pension and others were disposed of.
He emphasized the employees that they should perform their professional duties diligently as they had been performing for the last three years.
He warned that meter readers involved in over/under billing would be taken to task if they were found guilty. He lauded employees’ cooperation in collecting cash and kind for earthquake-hit areas. He revealed that the company had provided Rs3.5 million in cash and 12 tones of commodities to the people affected by quake.
Human resources and administration director Col Ghazanfer Ali Khan, Chief Engineer Chaudhry Muhammad Siddique and other senior officers were also present on the occasion.
protest: Scores of motorcycle-rickshaw owners and drivers brought traffic to a standstill on GT Road in protest against the RTA secretary and his staff for impounding vehicles on certain pretext and releasing them after taking heavy fines.
The protesters, led by auto-rickshaw association president Muhammad Akbar Butt and advocate Sheikh Ijaz Husain, gathered there and parked their vehicles in the middle of the road. They stopped the official vehicle of Punjab chief minister’s adviser Ms Faiza Asghar near Gondlanwala Chowk. They informed the adviser that their vehicles were being impounded to benefit the franchized buses at the behest of the transport ministry.
A rickshaw driver of Shaheenabad claimed that his vehicle was impounded 13 times within a fortnight. He said that he got released his vehicle after borrowing Rs7,400 as the RTA secretary imposed heavy fines.
Bringing his wife and children in the protest demonstration, driver Tahir Shah of Madu Khalil locality questioned whether he should feed them or pay regular fines to RTA authorities.
Later, senior police officers and RTA secretary Ishrat Niazi reached there and dispersed protesters after holding dialogues with them.
SUSPENDED: As many as four police officials were suspended from service for absenteeism and 70 others charge-sheeted on charges of negligence here on Thursday.
Report said the DPO paid a surprise visit to Ashraf Marth police lines and found moharrar Muhammad Fayyaz, constables Anwar Ali, Asghar and Muddasar absent from duty. He issued show-cause notices to 70 others on charges of negligence.
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