Legal relief of Rs 58m provided to 36 plaintiffs Punjab Ombudsman

Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Office of the Ombudsman Punjab has mediated to provide a cumulative legal relief of over Rs.58 million to plaintiffs in response to 36 applications submitted to the regional offices against provincial government departments for the resolution of their problems.
In a statement issued Wednesday, the spokesman said the action taken by the ombudsman’s office helped Shamim Akhtar of Faisalabad to receive the long-awaited pension arrears of her late husband worth Rs.41,05,155 from the health department after 13 years. Similarly, it also mediated to ensure that the irrigation department pays three lakh rupees to Khanewal’s Nishad Akhtar as financial aid for her late husband. She received this amount after 11 years.
The spokesman said that the heirs of Shaheed Dr Bashir Ahmad, Principal Medical Officer of Services Hospital Lahore have been paid eight million rupees under the shuhada package while 2,23,279 rupees have been given to two other plaintiffs of Faisalabad as the price for items supplied to DHQ hospital Toba Tek Singh.
The spokesman said that the different applicants of Lahore, Faisalabad, Sahiwal, Muzaffargarh, Attock, Nankana Sahib, Gujranwala, Lodhran, Jhang, and Bahawalnagar districts have received a collective relief of 1,36,87,058 rupees in their family pension cases. As a result of the separate action taken by the ombudsman office, overall relief of 1.742 million rupees has been provided to the applicants of different cities in their cases of non-payment of the farewell grant, GP and welfare funds, scholarships, and group insurance amounts, the spokesman added.