LAHORE, Sept 21: The provincial government will pay Rs750 monthly computer allowance to its data entry operators, as a summary in this regard has been moved by the finance department.

Finance minister Hasnain Bahadur Dareshak, urging movers of a resolution to withdraw it, told the house on Tuesday that the decision would be implemented in few days as the chief minister also had approved the scheme.

The Punjab government was earlier paying Rs450 to these operators while the federal as well as two provincial governments were paying Rs750 a month. The resolution had been moved by MMA's Asghar Gujjar, Waseem Akhtar, Chaudhry Shaukat and Zaibunnisa Qureshi.

The house adopted three more resolutions. Advocate Misbah Kokab had moved that the government should amend family laws to enable a divorced woman get dower from her former husband until she is feeding her infants.

PPP's Tanvir Ashraf Kaira had suggested in his resolution that for providing relief to the masses one-window operation in all government departments where public dealing was involved should be immediately initiated.

MMA's Waseem Akhtar said the S&GAD had already devised rules and set time-frame about how much time a file could be detained by an official. But, he regretted, these rules were not being implemented.

Parliamentary secretary Tanveer Aslam Malik said the government supported the resolution, as it had already sought details from all relevant departments for initiating one-window operations there. Dr Samia Amjad moved that the house appreciated chief minister Pervaiz Elahi for announcing that doctors on a contract would be regularized.

QUESTION HOUR: Parliamentary Food Secretary Mahmood Ahmad told the house in response to a supplementary question that market committees were commissioning electronic weigh stations to check short-measuring of sugarcane by mills.