HYDERABAD: Package to save bangle industry demanded
Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, Nov 5: The Muttahida Qaumi Movement has expressed concern over the crisis facing the bangle industry of the city and said that thousands of bangle workers have lost jobs due to the crisis.
In a joint statement issued here the other day, MQM MNA- elect, Prof Khalid Wahab, and MPAs-elect, Arshad Shah, Naeem Ishtiaq and Aslam Pervez, demanded that a special package should be announced for the bangle industry.
They proposed that the bangle manufacturing units, which were scattered all over the city in congested areas, should be shifted to SITE and provided necessary infrastructure.
They demanded that the bangle manufacturing should be officially recognized as an industry and a strategy should be evolved to develop harmonious relations between workers and factory owners.
They said that Hyderabad was known all over the world because of its glass bangles but now the bangle manufacturing units were in the grip of a crisis.
The said that the main sufferers were workers of the industry, whose families were starving.
The MQM leaders said that the factories remained closed most of the time due to confrontation between the employers and the employees.
EDUCATION: Education is a step towards social change and the parents should give top priority to the education of their children.
This was said by Sindh information secretary Ashfaq Ahmed Memon while speaking at the children’s day at the Sindh Grammar School, Qasimabad, here on Monday.
Memon said that the Sindh government had initiated a number of schemes to promote education and provide financial assistance to needy students.
He said that with the government institutions, the private sector was also doing a lot for the promotion of education and a sense of competition between government and private educational institutions had brought better results.
The chairman of the school, Maqbool Ahmed Memon, and the principal, Edgar Victor, apprised the audience about the performance of the school.
HUNGER STRIKE: The members of the Tando Yousuf Minority Graveyard Committee here on Tuesday continued a token hunger strike for the third consecutive day against dilapidated condition of the graveyard.
Talking to newsmen, Wilson Bagga, Pitrus Suba and Shaukat Inayat said that the graveyard was submerged under dirty water but the authorities had failed to drain out the water.
They appealed the district Nazim, Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman, to visit the graveyard and direct the civic agencies concerned to drain out the dirty water.
They also appealed the provincial ombudsman to take action in this regard.
JSQM: Over two dozen activists of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz and the Jeay Sindh Students Federation here on Tuesday observed a token hunger strike against the alleged excesses, unleashed by the central jail and Nara jail administrations, against the imprisoned party activists.
Talking to newsmen, Sureyah Sindhi, chief organizer, JSSF, Hyderabad, said that Zafar Korejo, Paryal Jakhro and Munawar Jamali, had been kept in solitary confinement in the Central Jail, Hyderabad, He added that the JSQM activists were being tortured and no one was allowed to meet them.
Similarly, he said, joint secretary, JSSF, Waheed Soomro, who was confined in Nara Jail, was seriously ill but he was being denied medical treatment.
He demanded that DIG, jails, and superintendent, Nara Jail, should be transferred immediately.
