In this file photo, people stand in circles drawn with chalk to maintain safe distance outside a bank in Lahore. — Reuters/File
LAHORE: The issue of government’s failure to spend Covid-19 funds reverberated in the Punjab Assembly, when Rabia Nusrat raised it and provincial minister for finance Hashim Jawan Bakhat told the House that the Punjab government was looking at ways to spend it.
The minister told the House that Rs1.16 billion had been collected in the fund and the money was lying in an account of the CM Fund. The Punjab government had deducted one day salary of grade-1 to grade-16 employees, two-day salary of grade 17 to 19 and three- day salary of grade 20 and above.