By: Burhan Ghani Raja
Mines Department, Labor Welfare and Worker Welfare Board have been involved in collusion or bribery, marriage grants for the daughters of hundreds of workers and death grants for workers who died during work have been stalled for the past several years. According to details, due to the collusion of corrupt elements deployed in the institutions set up for the welfare of workers in the Salt Range area or other industries and their supporters, lakhs of rupees of each of the hundreds of poor miners and other workers are not being released. According to reports, even for the payment of the money provided to them by the institution and the government at the time of the death of the miners, it has been revealed that white-blooded government officials have been issuing checks by taking bribes of thousands of rupees.
On the other hand, instead of paying the money to the poor workers whose daughters get married before the wedding, the white elephants of the department have been running around for years and telling the officials about the provision of money, but the higher officials have been given a They consider it an insult to work without money and water. Hundreds of miners and laborers across Chakwal have become walking corpses after being oppressed by these oppressors. The miners who borrowed money from someone in the hope of getting a marriage grant are now begging and borrowing. Sources have learned that the illiterate so-called labor leaders also seem to be receiving their share in large quantities, while senior officers and local officials, in order to hide their deeds, save their lives by inviting them to meetings of government committees established in the name of the welfare of the laborers. While these so-called leaders not only extort donations from the laborers by organizing photo sessions with senior officers, but also extort money from them in exchange for getting them to work by deceiving them about their relations.
On the other hand, sources claim that the current or former Minister of Minerals is a mafia that keeps public representatives away from the real truth and gives a good report. Miners, laborers and the public from across the region have called the Department of Mines and Labor The workers have appealed to Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif, Minerals Minister Sardar Sher Ali Khan Gorchani and Minerals Secretary to take notice of this ongoing atrocity in the Welfare and Worker Welfare Board. They demand that all elements involved in this business be brought to justice so that those who usurp the rights of the poor can be punished.
