ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet on Thursday approved $2.58 million for the families of Chinese workers killed in the Shangla attack earlier this year and Rs88 billion in other supplementary grants for various ministries.
The ECC, which met with Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb in the chair, approved compensation package for the families of five Chinese workers of the Dasu Hydropower Project and Rs2.5 million for the family of Pakistani bus driver killed in a terrorist attack in March.
The compensation was approved at a rate of $516,000 per head as a goodwill gesture. This is on the pattern of $11.6 million previous such payments to Chinese workers (10 killed and 26 injured) in 2021 working on the same project and to two Chinese workers of Gomal Zam Dam, killed in 2004.
The supplementary grant would be arranged by the finance ministry as the water resources ministry did not have “extra” funds allocated for the purpose in the budget.
Meanwhile, the ECC also approved the summary presented by the Ministry of Aviation to allow the utilisation of $8 million available with the National Bank of Pakistan to pay severance and other operational expenses of the Roosevelt Hotel.