LAHORE: On the order of the Punjab Ombudsman retired Maj. Azam Suleman Khan, a cumulative relief of Rs12.92 million has been provided to complainants of different districts in their cases relating to provincial government departments.
In a statement issued on Monday, a spokesperson of the agency said the studying children of Ghulam Farid of Lahore have been provided talent scholarships worth Rs0.3 million by the Punjab Workers Welfare Fund (PWWF) on the orders of the provincial ombudsman.
In another case, he added that a sum of Rs2.4 million has been released to construct a boundary wall of Govt. Girls High School Dandian in Kamoki tehsil.
The spokesman informed the Office of the Ombudsman moderated for payment of Rs2.8 million to Allah Wasaya of Kasur as pension arrears and also intervened in the payment of employment dues of Rs1.2 million to Sardar Masih of Faisalabad.
Similarly, Sarfraz Khan of Jhang district succeeded in eking out the pending amount of Rs1.8 million of his sugarcane crop after the involvement of the ombudsman’s office, he mentioned.
The spokesman further stated that Rs1.7 million was paid to a Mianwali-based government contractor namely Khaliq Dad Khan. Rs1.3 million was released to Abdul Ghafoor Dar of Gujrat as arrears in addition to the issuance of a family pension to him.
In another development, Rs0.5 million were paid to Ali Ramzan of Sialkot as a death grant and Muhammad Tariq of Nankana Sahib was given Rs0.3 million as arrears of payments for services rendered to the Buildings Department.
The spokesman noted that arrears worth Rs0.2 million are paid to Muhammad Afzal of Rahim Yar Khan in addition to the restoration of the monthly grant of the provincial welfare fund.
In a separate development, Rs0.1 million is released to Syed Khadim Hussain of Gujranwala as rent arrears of his building and an educational stipend of Rs50,000 from the welfare fund has also been paid to Rajab Ali of Toba Tek Singh on the instructions of the ombudsman’s office, concluded the spokesman.
The complainants have thanked the Office of the Ombudsman Punjab for the protection of their legal rights.
