ISLAMABAD:
President Dr Arif Alvi has directed Water and Energy Growth Authority (Wapda) to instantly pay and restore a welfare grant to a retired worker’s particular little one from the date of its discontinuation.
He additionally ordered Wapda to provoke disciplinary proceedings in opposition to delinquent officers who determined to cease the welfare grant even though the grant had been issued for all times after fulfilling the required standards, President Secretariat Press Wing stated in a press release on Saturday.
Whereas accepting a illustration of Syed Noor Ali Zaidi (the complainant) in opposition to Wafaqi Mohtasib’s choice, the president stated that the delinquent officers brought about an embarrassing scenario, not just for the household of a retired worker but in addition for Wapda by unjustly stopping the welfare grant to an individual with incapacity (PWD) who had been declared unemployable for all times and was completely depending on his dad and mom.
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He stated that Wapda ought to contact the Ministry of Human Rights, which had a particular programme to show greater than 50 talent units to PWDs and later hyperlink them to potential employers.
He pressured that on such points, it was the duty of establishments like Wapda to information PWDs, take social duty, and be certain that they grow to be employable.
As per particulars, the complainant had alleged earlier than Wafaqi Mohtasib that he was a particular little one of a retired worker of Wapda, that the medical board had declared him unemployable for all times and really useful him for Wapda Welfare Fund underneath the foundations.