40 HIEA workers get house allotment letters

Minister says govt giving maximum facilities to investors

A meeting was held at the office of the Hattar Industrial Estate Association (HIEA) on Monday under the patronage of the Workers Welfare Board (WWB) for the distribution of allotment letters of houses to 40 workers of 15 different industries.

At the meeting, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Irrigation Arshad Ayub Khan said that the government was giving maximum benefits and facilities to the industrialists and investors. He said they were doing this so that more industrialists could establish their industries in the country and create employment opportunities for young people.

The meeting was also attended by members of HIEA, officials of the WWB, and owners of various industries and workers.

Khan said that the WWB that Hattar Industrial Estate was the largest industrial unit of the province where thousands of workers were employed. He added that to ensure the provision of facilities for these workers, special attention should be given to health and education. He said that they should also facilitate those industrialists who had invested in Hattar and established their own units, which provided employment to local people. The minister directed the industrialists to contribute as much as possible to the Workers' Welfare Fund so that the workers could get maximum benefits.     

While instructing the industrialists, Khan said that the factories that were discharging contaminated waste water affected the surrounding population. He added that small water treatment plants should be installed to save people.

Khan said that the government was keen to set up modern healthcare facilities, like other industrial units of the province, so that the workers of the HIE could enjoy modern facilities.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, February 22^nd, 2022.