JHANG City News

Monthly allowances, pay of doctors increased

From our Correspondent

JHANG: On the directions of the Punjab Accountant General, the Jhang District Accounts Office has increased monthly allowances and pay of doctors working in the Health Department by updating their computerised salary data.

Talking to media here on Saturday, District Accounts Officer Fazal Elahi said that the Punjab Finance Department in a notification No FD-SR-1-9-34/11(Pt.I) had approved revision of health professional allowance and pay scales of doctors BS-17 to BS-20 posted at different government hospitals. He said that Rs 3,188 had been increased in the monthly pay of doctors of BS-17, Rs 1,770 of BS-18, Rs 1,753 of BS-19 and Rs 1,774 had been increased in the monthly pay of doctors of BS-20 from this month (February). He said that all sections head and assistant accounts officers had been warned that all payment bills submitted by health, buildings, roads and other departments should properly be examined by observing financial rules during pre-audit of each payment.

‘TECHNICAL TRAINING VITAL FOR FUTURE’: DPO Humayun Masood has said that technical education is vital for all students to meet future challenges.

He said this while addressing a function at the Government Postgraduate College as the chief guest on Saturday. The DPO also distributed shields, medals and prizes among the position holder students.

INSPECTION: A Higher Education Commission’s team on Saturday visited the Government College of Commerce for the inspection of proposed accommodation to start classes till completion of University of Jhang’s building.

The team was led by Government Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Principal Rukhsana David. DCO Nadir Chattha and other concerned officials also accompanied the inspection team. Earlier, the district administration had proposed that classes could be started in a portion of the college till construction of the University of Jhang’s campus. Meanwhile, teaching and non-teaching staff of the college wrote a letter to the higher authorities of the HEC and the government and protested against the decision of the district administration. They stated that the college’s rooms were already insufficient for DCom, ICom, BCom and MCom classes. They alleged that the district administration did not take the college’s ammonisation onboard before sending the said proposal to the government.