Mahmood directs for sure implementation of minimum daily wage of labourers
PESHAWAR
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan Monday said that three new grid stations recently completed in the provincial metropolis would be functionalized soon.
He was presiding over a meeting relating to power-load shedding and low-voltage issues in some areas of the province.
The meeting held threadbare discussion on various matters to resolve the issues of low voltage and load-shedding of electricity of the province.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) chief Engr. Mohammad Jabbar Khan and other relevant officials attended the meeting.
The forum was given a detailed briefing about the progress so far made on the ongoing developmental projects aimed at improving power infrastructure across the province.
The chief minister said that all the matters of PESCO related to provincial government would also be settled down on priority basis and added that these matters related to federal government would soon be taken up with the Prime Minister Imran Khan who has already promised to allocate funds for the improvement of power infrastructure in the province so that the issues of load-shedding and low voltage could be resolved once for all.
He directed the quarters concerned to ensure timely completion of all ongoing developmental projects for improving electricity infrastructure in the province.
He warned the PESCO authorities that no delay would be allowed in the completion of ongoing projects directing that the company would have to take practical steps within the available resources to give maximum relief to the general public.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has directed the administrative heads of all the departments to ensure implementation of the provincial government’s decision regarding minimum wage rates at the cost of Rs. 21,000 per month for daily wagers.
According to the letter issued by Chief Minister Secretariat Peshawar on Monday, all the administrative secretaries of the departments have been directed to implement the decision in letter & spirit without any delay.
In his special statement issued here to this effect, Mahmood Khan has directed that payment of Rs. 21,000 per month to the staff working on daily wages in the government departments should be ensured at all costs.
