HYDERABAD: Dist council for abolition of contract system
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, March 31: The Hyderabad District Council on Saturday demanded the abolition of the contract system and said that the entire industrial labour should be guaranteed protection under the government’s labour policy.
The council said that the labourers should be provided medical allowance, bonus, pension, and other facilities.
Abdul Qadeer Qazi tabled a resolution which was allowed for debate by Convener Nawab Rashid Ali Khan.
Mr Qazi said that employment of labourers in industrial institutions was banned but the industrialists were providing jobs to labourers through their contractors.
He said that the mill owners and contractors had fixed their wages with the result that the mill workers did not get full salaries.
He pointed out that no legal cover was provided to them.
He said that even the minimum wages, fixed by the government, were not being given.
He demanded that the workers should be provided protection under labour policy of the government coupled with other benefits of medical, bonus, pension, etc.
Through another resolution, presented by Iqbal Ahmed Ansari, the council condemned the privatization commission’s bid to include the plot of the Paretabad Girls College in the list of auction.
Mr Ansari said that the City Taluka Council had also passed a resolution but it had not been implemented.
He said that the construction of the college had been delayed which had created despondency among the inhabitants.
Condemning the move of the privatization commission, the Nazim demanded the Sindh governor and Sindh Privatization Commission to exclude the said plot and hand it over to the EDO (Works), Hyderabad, so that the construction of the college could be completed.
In another resolution, the council called for the shifting of the Higher Secondary School, Tandojam, in the building of the Sindh Agriculture University.
It was pointed out in the resolution, tabled by Abdul Mateen Khanzada, that the education department had accepted the demand of the people and shifted one school from Hyderabad to Tandojam.
Through another resolution the attention of the council was brought towards the government’s decision to wind up the Sindh and Punjab Seed Corporations and to give the task of producing seeds to some private firm.
M. Parkash, who tabled the resolution, said that the corporations had done a good job in production of seeds with the result that the country exported some crops to other counties.
He said that the growers of both the provinces had opposed the initiatives with the result that the Punjab governor had allowed the Punjab Seed Corporation to continue working for another three years.
However, he said, the Sindh government had decided to wind up the corporation by June 30.
He appealed to the government to give financial aid to the corporation so that its employees were not rendered jobless.
