Daily Times

The Ombudsman Punjab office provided cumulative financial relief of more than Rs 87.5 million to 16 applicants belonging to different districts by redressing their complaints related to provincial government departments. A spokesman for the Ombudsman Punjab office said here on Sunday that on the intervention of ombudsman office, Afrah Ejaz of Lahore had been given pension dues worth Rs 2,777,226 by the district education authority Faisalabad while the University of Agriculture Faisalabad paid Rs 4,223,826 to Hafiz Saqib Nawab. Similarly, Sheikh Adnan Ahmad got outstanding dues amounting to Rs 7,922,520 from the district health authority Sheikhupura after the involvement of the ombudsman office.

In a similar development, the spokesman mentioned that a plaintiff Muhammad Tayyab Azeem Tariq received a total pending dues of Rs 21,429,000 from Mayo Hospital Lahore, while Naseer Ahmad succeeded in obtaining emoluments of Rs 15,379,756 from the school education department after the ombudsman office interposed to resolve their issues. Following the instructions of the ombudsman office regarding the redressal of public complaints, the education department paid Rs 2,973,651 to Irshad Fatimah of Bahawalpur while deciding her family pension case and provided pension dues of Rs 3,022,371 to Khalida Parveen of Jhang. Similarly, financial assistance of Rs 2.2 million and Rs 2.5 million had also been given by SED to Adil Aftab and Faiz Elahi of Multan after the disposal of their cases, the spokesman noted.

The spokesman reported that the mediation of the ombudsman office had resulted in a payment of employment dues valuing Rs 2,411,703 to Sheikhupura-based plaintiff Naveeda Kauser by the highways department. It also paid road contract dues of Rs 12,296,594 to Bahawalpur-based applicant Muhammad Afzal and gave Rs 3 million to Nasreen Akhtar of Hafizabad as employment dues of her late husband. In a similar development, the spokesman added the C&W Department had paid employment dues worth Rs 2,679,174 to Muhammad Amjad of Vehari, while DG Khan-based widow Riffat-un-Nisa had been given long-awaited dues of her late husband amounting to Rs 2.2 million. Meanwhile, the health department has settled the financial aid case of Asma Mushtaq of TT Singh after the involvement of the ombudsman office and paid Rs 2.5 million to her, the spokesman added.