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GUJRANWALA, July 4: The government’s new labour and industrial policy will improve relations between employers and employees, besides reducing unemployment.
This was hoped by Provincial Labour and Manpower Minister Syed Akhtar Husain Rizvi and Provincial Industry Minister Muhammad Ajmal Cheema while speaking at the local chamber of commerce and industry here on Friday.
They said Rs2,500 million would be spent on the welfare of labourers and their families in the next two years. Construction of labour colonies and social security hospitals also figured on the agenda, they added.
The two ministers claimed that Lahore and Multan would be made modern industrial centres. The small industrial estate No 1 and No 2 would be reconstructed with the cooperation of the businessmen, they said.
Earlier, chamber president Khwaja Tahir Hassan welcomed the ministers and apprised them of the local businessmen’s problems.
ROBBERY FOILED: A grid station’s security guard foiled a robbery bid, but suffered hurts when one of them attacked him here on Friday.
Reports said the cashier of 132-KV grid station at Jalalpur Jattan was disbursing salaries among the employees when two gunmen came there. Security guard Muhammad Asif overpowered one of them while the other attacked him with knife and got his cohort freed. They left the guard wounded.
He was admitted to the District Headquarters Hospital where his condition was stated to be out of danger.
Meanwhile, Gujranwala Electric Power Company Chief Executive Brig Saifullah Khalid has announced cash award for the guard.
ELECTROCUTED: A veterinarian was electrocuted when he was unlocking shutters of his clinic on the Pasrur Road here on Friday.
According to reports, Dr Javed Ahmad suffered shocks as soon as he touched the shutters and died on his way to the DHQ Hospital.
The body was handed over to the heirs the same day.
PROTEST: The sanitary staff of the Kamoki municipality took out a protest procession on Friday against tehsil Nazim for imposing ban to throw waste at open places in some parts of the tehsil.
The Nazim announced that Rs1,000 fine would be recovered from the violators.
