Implementation of job quota stressed

Implementation of job quota for special persons and activate the committees set up in districts to resolve problems.

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Secretary Capt (retd) Zahid Saeed has directed deputy commissioners to ensure implementation of job quota for special persons and activate the committees set up in districts to resolve their problems. He was presiding over a video conference of deputy commissioners at Civil Secretariat on Sunday. He said the Punjab government was taking all possible steps to help differently abled persons including the visually-impaired persons to get respectable status in the society and make them useful citizens.



“The government has adopted an effective strategy for rehabilitation of special persons and job quota for them was increased from 2% to 3%” he said. “For provision of best healthcare in hospital quality medicines of international standard have been purchased and timely payments should be made in procurement of medicines.” He warned that no negligence would be tolerated in the provision of free medicines, facilities and cleanliness arrangements in district and tehsil headquarter hospitals. Deputy commissioners should regularly visit hospitals, he added. He called for campaign against polio and dengue to be expedited in the vulnerable districts, adding that there was a need to work with zeal to eradicate both these diseases once and for all.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 29^th, 2017.