SHANGLA: Alpuri assistant commissioner Mohammad Hamid Siddiqui on Wednesday directed all private hospitals and business outlets to implement government’s minimum wage policy within 15 days, or face action.

The government has fixed Rs36,000 as minimum wage per month. The move comes after numerous complaints from private sector employees, who are being paid less than half the minimum wage of Rs36,000 set by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Wage Board.

Mr Siddiqui visited the private hospitals and other business outlets and asked the employees about their salary and found that most of private business outlets were paying less than half the minimum wage.

The district labour officer also accompanied the Alpuri assistant commissioner, who told reporters that notices had been issued to private hospitals to implement the minimum wage policy within 15 days or face strict legal action under the labour laws.

FARE LIST: Puran assistant commissioner Haroon Saho has launched a campaign to make the public transporters to display the fare list on the windscreens of their vehicles and avoid overloading.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, he said he had also directed to keep the bus stands clean.

Mr Saho asked the public to lodge complaints if transporters indulged in violation of the fare list, so that action could be taken against them.

COMPUTER COURSE: Forty-seven youth completed a three-month computer course organised by the district youth affairs department.

A certificate distribution ceremony was organised here on Wednesday. On the occasion, deputy commissioner Mohammad Fawad Khan urged the youth to fully avail computer courses as learning computer skills was need of the hour.

District youth officer Haider Ali Khan also spoke on the occasion and said 130 students had got registered for the computer course, of whom, 47 had successfully completed it.

Published in Dawn, January 30th, 2025