KARACHI, May 6: After the authorities emphatically told a KDA employee that there is no chance that he would get his salaries even after two months of non-payment, he died of a heart failure in his office on Monday.

A naib qasid, Nawaz, of the Master Plan Department was the employee who died of shock.

More than 500 officers and staff of the Traffic Engineering Bureau, Karachi Mass Transit Project, Design Bureau and Master Plan Department of the defunct KDA have not been paid their salaries for the past two months.

Excepting the Design Bureau, all these departments now form part of the city government, but salaries of their employees are being paid by the Karachi Building Control Authority (KBCA).

A group of officers and staff met on Monday higher authorities of the KBCA with a request to arrange for the payment of their salaries, but the request was turned down on the plea that the KBCA was at present under the Sindh government, and the other departments of the defunct KDA were under the city government.

This caused disappointment to the officers and staff of these departments.

The shock was unbearable for a naib qasid, Nawaz, of the Master Plan Department, and he died of a heart failure.

About two months ago, the Nazim Karachi, Naimatullah Khan, had announced that salaries would be paid on time, but his promise is yet to be translated into reality.— PPI