MULTAN, Feb 8: The district accounts offices have been given a three-month deadline to set right the GP Fund records of government officials.

This was stated by Accountant General Punjab Wazeer Ahmed Qureshi in a meeting here on Saturday while taking stock of the pension and GP Fund matters of employees of various government departments pending with the accounts office.

The AGP said after setting the pension records straight throughout the province the GP Fund records had also been corrected in nine districts. Therefore, he said the ban to draw advance GP Fund in these nine districts had been withdrawn.

He said in Faisalabad the GP Fund record was set right in only three months which otherwise had been lying incomplete for the last 13 years. “The task to correct the record in Multan will be achieved within two months,” he hoped.

He directed the government departments to prepare pension cases a year before the retirement of employees and submit the same to the district accounts office concerned six months prior to the retirement. He warned that he would take to task the secretary or head of the department found guilty of negligence in this regard.

The AGP said the president had directed swift disbursement of pension to retired government employees and in case of any procedural complication the pension should be disbursed on the undertaking given by the employee. “The accounts office should compensate the financial loss in case of inordinate delay in payment of pension to an employee.”

He had demanded Rs100 million from the government to improve working conditions at the district accounts offices, he said and added that the package would include new furniture and computers.

Later, the accountant general held an open kutchery to hear grievances of the people against the accounts office.