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GUJRANWALA, Oct 2: The tehsil city council on Tuesday took dozens of PTCL development wing’s labourers and their goods in custody when they were busy laying underground telephone cable.
Tehsil Nazim Babu Javed Ahmad sent a memorandum to the PTCL high-ups, asking them not to dig any road of the city without their permission.
He said the motorists were facing troubles moving from one place to another. The administration, he said, had to bear extraordinary expenditure on the reconstruction or reparation of the roads.
He maintained the PTCL got approval for digging only one road but it began to dig adjacent roads without prior intimation and depositing its expenditure for reconstruction.
Meanwhile, the PTCL high-ups got the workers released with the equipment the same day.
Denying allegations, they said the wing had already deposited the estimated amount with the tehsil city council for the reconstruction of roads.
URGED: District Nazim Fiaz Ahmad Chattha has urged industrialists and factory owners to provide better facilities to labourers like pension and old-age benefits.
Speaking at pension’s documents-giving ceremony here on Tuesday, he said it was moral and constitutional duty of industrialists to offer better facilities to the labourers who had been playing pivotal role in strengthening national economy.
The old-age benefits institutions’ assistant director general and zonal head Syed Iqbal Haider Zaidi, director Javed Toor and Feco industries chief executive Khursheed A Aziz pointed out that as many as 5,000 industrial workers were registered in Gujranwala and they were being provided with benefits including, old-age compensation, monthly pension and other.
Gujranwal was the second big city after Karachi in the country as far as the provision of these benefits was concerned, they added.
