PTV, Radio Pakistan, APP: NA body recommends paying honoraria to employees

The National Assembly Standing Committee on Government Assurances has recommended that honoraria shall be given to the employees of the PTV, Radio Pakistan and the APP.

The committee also recommended that the Capital Development Authority (CDA) should address all issues related to the development of E-12 within one month and to submit its report.

The committee met with Malik Muhammad Amir Dogar in the chair at the Parliament house on Monday.

The standing committee was informed that the NADRA, the PTA and the IESCO had paid honoraria to those employees who served during the budget sessions in the Parliament House. The committee was informed that the PTV, Radio Pakistan and the APP had also not paid honoraria to their employees.

The standing committee directed that all departments may pay honoraria to their, those employees who served during the budget sessions, industriously, in the Parliament House.

The committee was informed that more than 30 years had passed and the CDA had received all charges, including development charges, from the plot holders of E-12. But despite the passage of a long time, the CDA did not handover the plots to the allottees.

The standing committee was informed by the concerned authorities that the present government was keenly interested in developing E-12 without further delay.

The committee directed that the CDA should address all issues related to the development of E-12 within one month and a compliance report be submitted to the committee.

The committee has also directed the NADRA to furnish details of all blocked CNICs on the direction of courts of law as well as different agencies. Moreover, the standing committee directed that the process to obtain the CNIC may further be made easier for the citizens.

The meeting was attended by Members National Assembly Mujahid Ali, Sheikh Rashid Shafiq, Syed Mubeen Ahmed, Khalid Hussain Khan Magsi, Chaudhary Armghan Subhani, Usman Ibrahim, Syed Javed Hasnain, Muhammad Afzal Khokhar, Syed Javed Ali Shah Jillani, Saira Bano, Gul Zafar Khan, MNA/Mover Sajid Khan, MNA/Mover, Gul Dad Khan, MNA/Mover and Sher Akbar Khan, MNA/Mover.

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan was also present in the meeting.