{"id":96643,"date":"2026-01-07T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=96643"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T09:46:31","slug":"cm-maryam-nawaz-unveils-digital-welfare-grant-scheme-for-punjab-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/cm-maryam-nawaz-unveils-digital-welfare-grant-scheme-for-punjab-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Maryam Nawaz unveils digital welfare grant scheme for Punjab workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government announced major reforms for the welfare of workers and abolished the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/kp-to-get-digital-pension-system-check-details-inside\/\">manual system<\/a> for workers&#8217; welfare grants and launched a modern online mechanism for marriage, death, and scholarship grants.<\/p>\n<p>The Provincial Labour Minister Muhammad Manshaullah Butt formally launched a direct credit system where welfare grants were directly transferred into the workers&#8217; bank accounts with just one click.<\/p>\n<p>The new system replaces the cheque-based process and seeks to ensure transparency, efficiency, and timely disbursement of funds.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, the labour minister said the online system would relieve the workers from the repeated visits to the government offices and dependence on the middlemen.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the new mechanism would also deal with delays and complaints about grant payments.<\/p>\n<p>Under the old cheque system, workers often waited for over three months to receive grants, although the new system is meant to speed things up.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Workers Welfare Funds Mujtaba Bharwana briefed the provincial minister on the features and implementation of the online system.<\/p>\n<p>The move was welcomed by the workers and their family members, who thanked Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif for prioritizing labour welfare.<\/p>\n<p>Labour Minister said that Institutional reforms were being carried out under the leadership of the Chief Minister; reiterated that Workers\u2019 welfare remains at the top priority of the Punjab Government.<\/p>\n<p>He said, from now onwards, the grants would be distributed strictly on merit, and full transparency would be ensured, setting new standards for labour welfare in the Province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab government announced major reforms for the welfare of workers and abolished the manual system for workers&#8217; welfare grants and launched a modern online mechanism for marriage, death, and scholarship grants. The Provincial Labour Minister Muhammad Manshaullah Butt formally launched a direct credit system where welfare grants were directly transferred into the workers&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":38132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12936,33562],"class_list":["post-96643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-cm-maryam-nawaz","tag-welfare-grant-scheme-for-punjab-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96644,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96643\/revisions\/96644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}