Devolution of Workers Welfare Board opposed.

PESHAWAR -- Employees of the Workers Welfare Board (WWB), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chapter, has opposed devolution of Workers Welfare Board to provinces from June 2020 and feared the decision would cause shortage of funds for workers welfare projects.

They were speaking during a joint meeting of All Pakistan Workers Welfare Board Employees Union (CBA) and employees of the WWB, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in Peshawar here the other day with Shah Zulqarnain in the chair. Central president of the union, Aurangzeb Khan, and other office-bearers also shared views on the occasion.

'The Workers Welfare Fund was proposed for devolution to provinces in the 18th Amendment, but its implementation was still pending due to an executive order of former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani because Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan were unable to afford the expenditures,' Mr Zulqarnain told Dawn.

He said that the federal...