‘Labour colonies to be constructed in Punjab’

LAHORE
PROVINCIAL Minister for Labour and Human Resource Raja Ashfaq Sarwar has said the Punjab Workers Welfare Board (PWWB) will construct labour colonies in the whole province comprising state-of-the-art facilities worth billions of rupees for the industrial workers.
He stated this while presiding over a review meeting regarding various ongoing development projects of the PWWB on Wednesday. Secretary Labour Ishrat Ali, Secretary PWWB Muhammad Saleem Hussain, Director Works Muhammad Mazhar, officers of Labour Department concerned and District Coordination Officer Rawalpindi Sajid Zaffar attended the meeting.
Briefing the meeting, Secretary Punjab Workers Welfare Board Saleem Hussain said that worth billion of rupees projects to construct labour welfare complexes, WWB schools, multi-purpose community centres and mosques in Multan, Kasur, Sheikhupura, Rawalpindi, Okara and Gujranwala districts were under process where filtration plants and drainage system would also be provided to facilitate the industrial workers and their families. He told the media that a project of 992 flats, costing Rs.3,017 million for the construction of labour colony Multan, would be completed in the next two years along with a project of labour welfare complex Sundar Kasur at a total cost of Rs.7781 million would be started from the next month.
Saleem Hussain added that a labour colony project in Quaid-e-Azam Apparel Park in Sheikhupura was also under consideration.
District Coordination Officer Rawalpindi Sajid Zaffar informed the minister regarding progress in the construction of 576 flats on 142 kanals area in Taxila labour colony Rawalpindi in phase one.
The minister informed the meeting that the project of construction of 208 flats at a cost of Rs.926 million in Warburtton district Nankana would also be completed this year.
He further told the media that for the construction of workers labour complexes at Okara, Kasur and Gujranwala, land was being acquired for which funds would be taken from the Federal Workers Welfare Board to complete these projects.
Raja Ashfaq Sarwar directed the officers concerned to remove all the bottlenecks for the earliest completion of these labour welfare oriented projects.