KARACHI, Oct 2: The KWSB’s Mazdoor Union on Wednesday demanded of the Sindh governor and the city Nazim to immediately reinstate the remaining 535 employees who were forcibly removed from their services along with 573 employees of the Board in July, 1998.
Speaking at a press conference jointly addressed by the KWSB Mazdoor Union’s (CBA) President Munnawar Raza and General Secretary Rahim Awan, the speakers observed that although over 1,100 employees of the KWSB were removed from service in July 1998, the KWSB had, so far, reemployed 573 employees, while the remaining 535 employees were still being deprived of their jobs.
Describing the KWSB’s move of not issuing orders for the reinstatement of the remaining 535 workers as ‘uncalled for’ and ‘illogical’, the office-bearers of the KWSB Mazdoor Union urged the provincial chief secretary and the KWSB managing director to take immediate measures for the reinstatement of the remaining 535 employees, so that they and their families could be saved from starvation.
Highlighting other problems being faced by KWSB employees, they demanded of the KWSB managing director to either simplify the procedure of the employees’ medical facilities, or add Rs600 in the monthly salaries of all employees and make arrangements for having five big hospitals on the KWSB’s panel.
They also demanded that more than 100 employees who belong to interior Sindh and are posted in different town administrations’ of the city be transferred to Dhabeji, Gharo, Chilliya and Pipri.
