Lahore : Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Punjab Shamail Ahmad Khawaja today paid a surprise visit to the offices of Punjab Government Employees Benevolent Fund Board located in the “Alfalah Building” Mall Road, Lahore.
The ACS interacted with the applicants of marriage grant, funeral grant and different educational scholarships and listened to their problems. He issued on the spot orders to redress the genuine problems and directed the Secretary Punjab Government Employees Benevolent Fund Board, Sahibzadi Wasimah Umar to set up a state-of-the-art reception area in the office and convert all the functions of the applicants online system so that maximum facilitation could be provided to the government officials coming to the Benevolent Fund Office for obtaining various grants.
He directed that no case should be kept pending unjustifiably even for a single day and cheques of the grants be dispatched to the home addresses of the applicants without any delay through courier service.