Bureau Report
LAHORE, August 31: The Office of the Ombudsman Punjab has moderated for payment of 33.09 million in financial relief to 11 complainants from six districts after they approached the ombudsman’s office against provincial government departments to eke out their legal rights.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the spokesman explained that the irrigation department has paid Rs.4.89 million as salary arrears to work-charge employees on the complaint of Muhammad Waqas of Bahawalpur. In another development, Ghulam Fareed University of Engineering & Information Technology Rahim Yar Khan has provided Rs.1.75 million to Muhammad Shahran while the irrigation department has also disbursed financial aid arrears worth 1.2 million rupees to Shamim Akhtar of Vehari. Alongside, arrears of late husband’s salary amounting to Rs.2.67 million has been disbursed to Tasneem Akhtar of TT Singh by Punjab Employees Social Security Institutions (PESSI), the spokesman added.
The ombudsman office also intervened for payment of Rs.1.9 million to Abdul Khaliq of Sahiwal as late wife’s employment dues, Rs.2.92 million to Rubina Kausar as late school teacher husband’s dues and Rs.3.53 million toShagufta Begum as late husband’s dues the forest department, the spokesman mentioned.
The spokesman further said that the highways department Rahim Yar Khan has returned pending security dues of Rs.4 million to Zakaullah of Lahore while the health department has given 1.8 million back to complainant Muhammad Saeed as payment for medicines supplied by him. The ombudsman office also interacted to ensure payment of 2.45 million and six million rupees respectively to Azizullah and Rab Nawaz Khan of Jhang district as the payment of supplied sugarcane, the spokesman concluded.
