MHA Says Punjab Farmers Give Drugs to Migrant Workers to Extract More Work, Union Slams Claim
The letter is being looked at by the protesting farmers as yet another salvo by the Narendra Modi government to malign them.
A labourer drinks water while harvesting wheat crop at a field in Jhanpur village of the northern Indian state of Punjab April 18, 2012. Photo: Reuters/Ajay Verma
Rights03/Apr/2021
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has dispatched a letter to the Punjab government, alleging that farmers in its border areas have been administering “drugs” to migrant and bonded workers to work in their fields in order to extract longer hours of work from them.
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National
December 22, 2020
LAHORE: Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that funds approved for Wazirabad cardiology hospital have not been released for the last six month, which is really regrettable.
Presiding over the Punjab Assembly session on Monday, he said what was the use of such funds which keep going around the committees? He said due to delay in the release of the approved funds, 200 patients were waiting for their operations.
He said that because of non-availability of funds, all administrative matters of the hospital were pending, though Minister Imran Khan had appreciated that project.
The PA speaker said that he had also talked to the Punjab chief minister about the Wazirabad cardiology hospital, but nothing had happened. He said what the government was doing, why the budget approved by the assembly was not being released? “If the assembly decisions are not to be implemented, then what is the use of the assembly? It should be closed down,”
PA gives extension to different ordinances
Lahore
December 22, 2020
LAHORE:Punjab Assembly on Monday gave extension to different ordinances including Punjab Sugar Factories (control) (Amendment) Ordinance 2020, the Punjab Local Government (Amendment) Ordinance 2020, the Companies Profits (Workers’ Participation) (amendment) Ordinance 2020, and the Punjab Overseas Pakistanis Commission Ordinance 2020.
The ordinances which were given extension by the House also included the South Punjab Institute of Science and Technology, Dera Ghazi Khan, The Protection Against Harassment of Women At the Work Place (Amendment) Bill 2020, The Punjab Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2020 and The Punjab Privatization Board (Repeal) Bill 2020. During the PA session which started with a delay of over two hours, the resolution for the extension of ordinances for 90 days was also presented. The PA session was adjourned till Tuesday (today).