PESHAWAR: Special Assistant to KP CM on Zakat, Usher, Social Welfare, Special Education and Women Empowerment, Salma Begum has strictly instructed the concerned officers of the Directorate of Social Welfare for the merged districts to speed up the welfare activities in the new merged tribal districts to serve the deserving in the true sense. She issued this directive while presiding over the emergency meeting of the Directorate of Social Welfare. The officers of the Directorate participated in the meeting. The special assistant has also sought an explanation from the District Social Welfare Officer, Khyber for distribution of wheelchairs and sewing machines amongst influential and allegation of corruption in this regard. She said that the performance of the social welfare directorate in the merged districts is not satisfactory as compare to settled districts and sought three-year performance report of the directorate of merged districts and Frontier Regions. APP
She directed for bringing improvement in the performance of the Directorate of Social Welfare in Merged Districts and Frontier Regions.
She further said that the Social Welfare Department has been established to serve economically weak, needy, widows, disabled people of the society and directed all the officers to perform their duties efficiently.
