LAHORE: The Office of the Punjab Ombudsman has interacted to provide a cumulative financial relief worth Rs25.25 million to 15 complainants of different districts who approached the agency for the solution of their issues pertaining to provincial government departments.
In a statement on Friday, a spokesman of the agency explained the involvement of the ombudsman office on complaints of non-payment of pensions and employment dues has resulted in the payment of Rs0.9 million by the Higher Education Department to one Manzoor Ahmed of Lahore and Rs1.9 million to Muhammad Hameed of Bahawalpur.
Similarly, Rs1.2 million are paid to Rawalpindi’s Muhammad Bashir by the executive engineer buildings division, Rs1.6 million to Shafqat Irshad of Rahim Yar Khan by the district education authority and Rs2 million to Muhammad Ashraf by the district health authority Muzaffargarh, the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, an amount of Rs2.3 million is given to Zaib Mai along with the creation of an OSD post and employment dues worth Rs1.5 million of a deceased government employee are also paid to her husband Muhammad Ashiq from Sheikhupura, the spokesman noted.
As a result of the involvement of the ombudsman office, Sabiran Bibi of Nankana Sahib district succeeded in getting her pension dues amounting to Rs1.9 million, the spokesman added.
The spokesman further explained the irrigation department has paid Rs1.6 million each to Naseem Akhtar and Samina Mukhtar of Sheikhupura while the local government and community development department Faisalabad provided the same to Sumaira Shahid and paid Rs2.2 million each to Naheed Zafar and Amtal Jannat.
In a related development, the directorate of land record has disbursed Rs1.9 million to Zargham Farooq of Dera Ghazi Khan as dues of his deceased father’s employment after the involvement of the ombudsman office that interacted with his application for the provision of financial aid.
Similarly, the agriculture department has paid salary dues of Rs0.8 million to Razia Sultana of Raiwind along with the creation of an OSD post, the spokesman concluded.
The complainants have thanked the ombudsman office for providing legal relief to them.
