DERA GHAZIKHAN: More than 4,000 workers and their offspring, registered with the Social Security Department, have yet to benefit from a proposed social security hospital and two workers` welfare high schools.

The hospital and schools have not been built despite the mutation of land in favour of the Labour Department for the projects in 2011.

A Workers` Welfare School was established in 1987 in Dera Ghazi Khan and since then it has been functional in a small private building where children of the registered workers obtain free of cost education.

The provincial government mutated 44 kanalsand 12 marlas adjacent to Bihari Colony in favour of the labour department for the construction of a 50-bed Social Security Hospital and schools for boys and girls in Dera Ghazi Khan in 2011.

According to a letter dated September 29, 2011 to the then district coordination officer from the ofHce of the secretary of colonies, the ownership of land will remain in the name of the provincial government and the land will not be utilised for the purpose other than the one for which it is being handed over and will automatically revert to colonies department along with super structure when no longer required for purpose. The labour department was bound to build the hospital and schools in five years.