Gilgit Baltistan

Following suit: Population welfare dept employees to be regularised

Following K-P and Azad Kashmir’s example, G-B to regularise 345 workers.

Our Correspondent March 12, 2014

G-B Assembly Deputy Speaker Jamil Ahmed said that the case would be referred to the Chief Minister.

GILGIT: The lawmakers of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) endorsed the recommendations of a committee that called for the regularisation of 345 employees of the regional Health and Population Welfare Department on Wednesday.

“After the 18th Amendment, employees of this department in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Azad Kashmir have been regularised, therefore ,we should also follow suit,” said G-B Minister for Finance Mohammad Ali Akhtar, during the third day of assembly proceedings.

Akhtar said the assembly passed a resolution to this effect a year ago, based on which, a committee worked on it before presenting to the house.

G-B Assembly Deputy Speaker Jamil Ahmed added that the case would further be referred to the Chief Minister.

A lawmaker from Baltistan, Amina Ansari, demanded that the house be briefed about what measures have been taken by the disaster management authority to avoid losses in case of floods or earthquakes in the region.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 13^th, 2014.