OMBUDSMAN PUNJAB

The Office of Ombudsman Punjab has been established with the prime objective "to provide protection for the rights of the people, to ensure adherence to the rule of law, to suppress corrupt practices; to diagnose, redress and rectify any injustice done to a person through maladministration". The law empowers the Ombudsman Punjab to entertain complaints against any department, commission or a statutory corporation or other institutions established by the Provincial Government, but does not include the High Court and the courts working under the supervision of High Court and the Provincial Assembly and its secretariat... The institution of Ombudsman is aimed at protecting individual's right without jeopardizing the efficacy of public policies faced by most of the societies in the contemporary world but the functional competence and the organizational structure of this institution varies from country to country depending on peculiar circumstances of each case. It is legally established,..

Also known as: The Ombudsman Punjab