The Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench has issued a decision on 08-03-2011 regarding the Assistant Package for the family of a contract employee of Punjab Govt who died during service. Mr. Muhammad Aslam Janjua the father of the died contract employee Mr. Talat Mahmood Janjua filed a writ petition VS Chief Engineer Punjab etc for the Assistant Package of Rs. 400,000/-.

The Notification issued on 13-02-2009 provides in clause (1) as under:

“XIII-A) Financial Assistance to the family of a contract employee who dies while in service. Financial Assistance shall be provided to the family of an employee on contract basis who dies during his/her service on the below given conditions and terms:

Financial Assistance in accordance with Finance Department’s circular number FD.SR.1/3/10/2004 dated 10-11-2004in the case of a death of of a contract employee who dies during his service. In case the contract employee working in a district, the sanction orders for the same be issued by the District Co-Ordination Office and if the contract employee is working on the provincial level the Administrative Secretary will issue the sanction orders in respect of the employee”. Read the full order sheet to illustrate the situation of the case. This post is delivered by Mr. Muhammad Ikram ul Haq.