Apartments for industrial workers inaugurated

ISLAMABAD:

Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Sajid Hussain Turi on Monday inaugurated 504 residential flats for industrial workers at the Workers Complex in Taxila.

According to a statement, the minister was accompanied by minister of state Sardar Salim Haider and the inaugural ceremony was attended by representatives of labour unions, local political activists, dignitaries and a large number of workers.

Workers of the Pakistan Peoples Party enthusiastically participated in the event and lauded the project. Addressing the ceremony, Turi said he was more than happy to hand over more than 500 flats to the working-class segment of society. He said the government was fulfilling a promise of providing shelter to every citizen.

He said that PPP and the working class of society have cordial relations as protecting labours’ rights is part of the party’s manifesto. “Facilitating the workers at their doorstep is the ideology of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Benazir Bhutto,” Turi said.

The minister also said the PPP never forgets the martyrs as 70 residential flats were allotted to the martyred workers’ families who sacrificed their lives fighting terrorism.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 13^th, 2022.