Pakistan Ordnance Factories is the premier defence installation of the country where 26,000 workforce is busy day and night in making the defence of the country invincible.
The Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) is recognised at international level and carries ISO industrial certification for its quality, which is spending huge amount on the welfare of its employees with the aim to provide ideal civic facilities so that they can fully concentrate toward their prime responsibility of strengthening the defence of the country.
Keeping in view the current international scenario and economic condition of the country, POF should not make burden on the government budget and to keep the products of this institution competitive at international level. It is the need of hour to keep the balance of production and non-production expenditure.
In order to save the limited resources of the country from wastage steps in right directions are inevitable so that the welfare projects could be carried on by saving the organisation from the loss. During the financial year 2009-2010, Rs 57 crore and 55 lakh spent on various welfare projects.
The brief description of these welfare projects is as under:-Amount spent on Eid Bonus given to POF employee, Rs 224.124 million; subsidy in electricity bills to POF employees residing in official accommodation, Rs 144.00 million; amount spent on medical cases sent to other hospitals, Rs 110.108 million; subsidy on schools/colleges buses detailed for the employees and their children, Rs 16.906 million; subsidy in the conveyance facility in welfare transport, Rs 16.609 million; scholarship/concession to the employees sons/daughters in terms of admission in Sir Syed schools/colleges, Wah Medical College, University of Wah and Wah Engineering College, Rs 12.111 million; marriage grant to the employees for the marriage of their sons/daughters, Rs 9.210 million; concession on medicines in POF welfare drug store, Rs 0.283 million; financial aid on long illness, Rs 0.264 million; financial aid in the purchase of spectacles, Rs 0.379 million; financial aid in terms of blood donation, Rs 0.370 million; financial aid to the widows on the death of employees during services, Rs 3.850 million; financial aid on the death of family members of employees, Rs 4.645 million; amount paid in the special medical treatment, Rs 4.931 million; amount spent on the religious functions of Christian employees on Christmas, Rs 0.328 million; loan given to POF employees from BS-1 to BS-15, Rs 6.625 million; Umra Scheme, Rs 1.674 million; Haj Scheme, Rs 2.450 million.
Keeping in view the present condition of the country in terms of War on Terror, it is very important to maintain the industrial peace in this sensitive defence installation and ensure mutual understanding and further strengthen the confidence so that those elements involved in misleading and playing with the emotions of the masses could be discouraged.
POF employees are not only earning livelihood from this organisation but also performing Jihad in terms of Holy Prophet saying that arrow maker, arrow seller and its users are Mujahid. Two years earlier, 70 martyrs of POF proved their resolve by sacrificing their lives in a suicidal attack. POF employees are ready to meet the challenges of this era.-PR