Transfer: EPD to take charge of 6 labs
Environment Department district officers will supervise these laboratories.
FAISALABAD:
Six testing laboratories being run with foreign assistance in the Punjab would be handed over to the Environmental Protection Department. The Environment Department district officers will supervise these laboratories. The decision was taken by the Punjab government after a petition was filed in the High Court last month accusing the administration of six laboratories in Faisalabad, Sheikhupura, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Rawalpindi and Rahim Yar Khan of corruption, embezzlement and misappropriation of funds. The staff of these laboratories, fearing termination, had filed a petition before the LHC court seeking merger of these laboratories with the Environment Department. On Thursday, the Environment Department announced that the department will take over charge of these laboratories as soon as orders were issued by the government.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 29th, 2012.
Six testing laboratories being run with foreign assistance in the Punjab would be handed over to the Environmental Protection Department. The Environment Department district officers will supervise these laboratories. The decision was taken by the Punjab government after a petition was filed in the High Court last month accusing the administration of six laboratories in Faisalabad, Sheikhupura, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Rawalpindi and Rahim Yar Khan of corruption, embezzlement and misappropriation of funds. The staff of these laboratories, fearing termination, had filed a petition before the LHC court seeking merger of these laboratories with the Environment Department. On Thursday, the Environment Department announced that the department will take over charge of these laboratories as soon as orders were issued by the government.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 29th, 2012.