Over Rs7m grants paid to applicants

LAHORE:Various provincial departments, including Secretary Punjab Workers Welfare Fund Lahore, Administrative Officer, Provincial Welfare Fund Board Punjab, Punjab Government Servants Benevolent Fund Board Lahore, Secretary Workers Welfare Board Labour and Human Resources Department, on the orders of Provincial Ombudsman Punjab Maj (retd) Azam Suleman Khan, have paid pending marriage grant, death grant, farewell grant of over Rs7 million to applicants.

Along with this, with the efforts of Ombudsman Punjab, Additional Director Grievance Redressal Cell, Punjab Social Protection Lahore, District Monitoring Officer Education and Punjab Education Sector Reform Programme, Lahore have also paid educational scholarships worth more than Rs16 lakhs to 38 students.

According to the details, on the orders of the Ombudsman Punjab, 38 applicants belonging to different districts requested that they have contacted their respective institutions several times to get educational scholarships, but there is no hearing. In this regard, the Ombudsman of Punjab issued orders to the relevant institutions to pay the pending educational scholarships to the students as soon as possible and resultantly the said institutions provided relief to the applicants.