'Rs80b' spent on worker's welfare projects
A total of eight one-window facilitation desks have so far been set up with officials from a total of 12 related federal government agencies at Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta, Multan, Sialkot and Faisalabad airports, benefitting at least 320,000 passengers and overseas Pakistanis. PHOTO: OPC FACEBOOK PAGE
Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resources Development Chaudhary Salik Hussain on Wednesday told the National Assembly that Rs80.310 billion had been spent from the Workers Welfare Fund for the well-being of workers.
Replying to supplementary questions during the Question Hour of the ongoing session, he said that the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resources had signed MoUs under state-to-state arrangements in the field of labour migration with Iraq while a proactive approach had been adopted to sign more MoUs with countries in the EU region like Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Greece and others.