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CM Punjab allots 720 flats to homeless industrial workers

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LAHORE: There is great news for homeless industrial workers that the Chief Minister of Punjab has drawn lots for newly constructed flats.

According to a private news channel, Chief Minister of Punjab Maryam Nawaz has drawn lots for 720 newly constructed flats for homeless industrial workers. She started the drawing by pressing a button and congratulated the successful industrial workers on getting ownership of the house.

Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz personally called an industrial worker named Nadeem Tahir and congratulated him and said that keep your parents with you in your house, because it is because of their prayers that you have got the flat.

Maryam Nawaz also directed the completion of a bachelor hostel for 700 workers in Quaid-e-Azam Business Park in Sheikhupura within three months.

Provincial Minister for Labor Manshaullah Butt, while briefing the Chief Minister on the said project, said that 5897 workers were declared eligible for the Worker Welfare Complex, Sundar Industrial Estate Phase One. Today, 480 flats have been allotted to industrial workers from Kasur, while 240 flats have been allotted to workers from Lahore.

The provincial minister said that another 1872 flats will be completed in the next 18 months. Widows of workers who died during service will get 3 percent quota and special workers will get 2 percent quota.

On this occasion, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz ordered to give flats to widows and special persons separately from the lottery and to give them flats on the ground floor for the convenience and safety of special industrial workers.

The labor minister further said that 672 flats in Sundar Phase-II, 656 in Multan and 544 flats in Warburton Nankana Sahib will be given to industrial workers.

He also said that 2000 industrial workers will be given free plots of three marla each in the labor colonies to be built in Kamalia in Jhang. 1,300 industrial workers in Jhang and 700 in Kamalia will get plots after infrastructure development.

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