Set criteria for employees contracts extension: Basharat

LAHORE: Punjab Law and Cooperatives Minister Raja Basharat has directed the Population Welfare Department to set criteria for extension of contracts of 3,411 employees of the Family Welfare Project.

He stated this while chairing a meeting of a special committee set up by the chief minister in this regard at Civil Secretariat on Wednesday. The meeting was attended by Provincial Minister for Population Welfare Hashim Dogat and officials of relevant departments. In a briefing, it was said the project was launched for 600 family welfare centres across the province for which more than 3,400 employees were still working on contract and being paid under the annual development programme (ADP). The project is now over. The employees of the family welfare centres were awarded six-month contract earlier each time and their latest contract would expire in December 2021. Now the chief minister has directed the committee to work out a plan of action for further extension of the contracts of these employees.

Raja Basharat directed the officers of the department to set the terms and conditions for extending the employees' contracts and send it to the committee so that the matter can be settled before December. He said that the final decision regarding extension of employees' contracts would be taken after approval of the chief minister.