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| January 23, 2003 | Thursday | Ziqa’ad 19, 1423 |
Workers protest against labour laws violation
FAISALABAD, Jan 22: Hundreds of industrial workers took out a procession here on Wednesday in protest against violation of labour laws in factories.
The protesters were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans in favour of their demands. Some of them were beating their chests against the government failure in implementing labour laws in industrial units.
They marched on different city roads and reached the Clock Tower intersection where trade union leaders in their speeches urged the government to withdraw the IRO-2002 in the larger interest of the labour force.
They said the labourers had already been facing financial constraints due to price hike and increase in tariffs of electricity and gas. Scores of families of daily-wage earners had reached on the verge of starvation, they said.
They demanded that the Labour Welfare Department should be taken over by the Punjab government and separated from the district government. They said all vacant seats in the department should also be filled so that the required strength could work for the implementation of labour laws.
They also criticized the role of the agencies concerned in approving marriage and death grants besides pension cases of labourers.
They urged the government to increase salaries of industrial workers besides regularization of their services.
CONFERENCE: The 17th Annual National Orthopaedic Conference will be held here from Jan 24 to 26.
More than 300 delegates from all over the country and abroad will participate in the conference.
LOOTED: Dacoits and thieves made off with cash, gold ornaments and two cars in different strikes here during the last 24 hours.
Some dacoits shot dead Abdul Rahseed on resistance in Chak 142-GB.
Two masked robbers snatched cash and valuables worth Rs200,000 from an expatriate, Farhan, on the Faisalabad-Jaranwala Road.
Thieves took away 24 TV sets, VCRs and electrical appliances from three shops in main bazaar of Khurrianwala.
Ayub was deprived of car by robbers near Chak 7-RB, Khurrianwala.
The car of a doctor was driven away by two masked highwaymen from its driver, Rustam Ali, in Madina Town.
Five armed men looted cloth and yarn from a godown in Nishatabad.
A gang of dacoits entered the house of Ilyas and decamped with cash, gold ornaments and valuables in Chak 8-JB, Nishatabad.
Four robbers snatched cash and jewellery from the family of Akbar Ali in Chak 3-JB, Nishatabad.
Thieves took away cash, electronic goods and other articles from the house of Kaleem Qamar in the area of the People’s Colony police.
Some thieves made off with 12 bags of yarn from the godown of Nazir in the Factory Area.
Video cassettes and TV sets were taken away from the video centre of Tufail in Thikriwala.
Cash and valuables were stolen from the house of Irshad in Chak 232-RB.
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