LAHORE: More than 400 contract employees of the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) have been regularised.

Minister for Housing and Urban Development Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed distributed regularisation letters to the contract employees at a ceremony at Wasa head office on Saturday.

Mr Rasheed congratulated the employees and stated the Wasa management was taking effective measures for the betterment and welfare of the employees. He said that in the past, decisions of recruitment and promotion were taken on the basis of the lists prepared by political leaders.

He said the PTI government promoted merit and transparency in the public offices and Wasa was the best example of this fact.

Wasa Vice-Chairman Sheikh Imtiaz Mehmood said that in the past, it was the practice to dismiss contract employees with the change of a government, and employees were made permanent through bribery. The incumbent government has eliminated this practice and adopted a merit-based policy for strengthening of the institutions.

Transparency has also been adopted while regularising the services of 400 employees.

Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2021