Provincial Labour and Human Resources Minister Syed Akhtar Hussain Rizvi has said that the government has allocated more than Rs 1billion during the current fiscal year for undertaking various development projects pertaining to labour welfare in the Punjab.
Talking to Business Recorder here on Monday he added that the present government was committed to providing all basic facilities to the industrial workers aimed at reducing their various problems.
Syed Akhtar said that work on establishment of labour complexes was in full swing in key industrial areas of the Punjab and these labour complexes would include a labour colony, hospital and school for children of industrial workers.
The present regime, he said, was taking revolutionary measures providing better and modern health cover and accommodation facilities to the industrial workers at their doorstep.
The minister said that sufficient funds were being mobilised on providing maximum facilities of education to the children of industrial workers, while free textbooks and uniforms were provided to the children in the educational institutions functioning in the province.
HOUSING COLONY: Akhtar Rizvi said that a plan to establish another housing colony at Sialkot was in the pipeline adding that the step was being taken keeping in view the importance of this export-oriented city as well as to solve the accommodation problems confronting the industrial workers of the city.