LAHORE: Punjab Ombudsman retired Maj. Azam Suleman Khan helped an elderly woman from the Township neighbourhood of Lahore, Wallait Shamim, in resolving an over two-decades-old dispute involving a property as the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) transferred ownership of her late husband’s residential plot in her name and issued a transfer letter after the involvement of the watchdog.
A spokesman of the office disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday.
The spokesman said that the director of the Local Government and Community Development Department in Gujranwala has imposed a major penalty of recovery of emoluments/financial benefits after a departmental enquiry against the former secretary of Kharian union council in Gujrat district for using a fake diploma to get a government job.
This action has been taken on orders of the ombudsman Punjab over a citizen’s complaint.
In another development, the spokesman said the Mianwali education authority imposed a cumulative fine of Rs0.6 million on two private educational institutions for sending matric admissions of their secondary level students to the Punjab Board of Technical Education in Lahore through a third private educational institution and administering admissions of the students without registration.
This action has been taken on a complaint of one Muhammad Yousaf Khan, the spokesman added.
Meanwhile, in response to an own-motion notice of Ombudsman Khan, the Gujranwala administration has apprised the office that an Rs24 million fine has been imposed on illegal profiteers in the district, during the last six months, while registering 608 cases, and arresting 443 people. and closing down 153 shops.
