ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has directed WAPDA to immediately pay and restore a welfare grant to a retired employee\u2019s special child from the date of its discontinuation. He also ordered WAPDA to initiate disciplinary proceedings against delinquent officials who decided to stop the welfare grant despite the fact that the grant had been issued for life after fulfilling the required criteria, President Secretariat Press Wing said in a press release on Saturday. While accepting a representation of Syed Noor Ali Zaidi (the complainant) against Wafaqi Mohtasib\u2019s decision, the president said that the delinquent officials caused an embarrassing situation, not only for the family of a retired employee but also for WAPDA by unjustly stopping the welfare grant to a person with disability (PWD) who had been declared unemployable for life and was totally dependent on his parents. He said that WAPDA should contact the Ministry of Human Rights, which had a definite programme to teach more than 50 skill sets to PWDs and later link them to possible employers. He stressed that on such issues, it was the responsibility of institutions like WAPDA to guide PWDs, take social responsibility and ensure that they become employable. APP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has directed WAPDA to immediately pay and restore a welfare grant to a retired employee\u2019s special child from the date of its discontinuation. He also ordered WAPDA to initiate disciplinary proceedings against delinquent officials who decided to stop the welfare grant despite the fact that the grant had been issued […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n