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LARKANA, April 10: Shahid Hussain Bhutto, Member National Assembly (MNA) from the constituency of NA-207 (Ratodero-Shahdadkot), while opposing the liquidation of the Shahdadkot Textile Mills, has demanded that it be reactivated.
In a communication to the official assignee of the Shahdadkot Textile Mills, the MNA on Thursday said that being the prime problem of his constituency, he was worried about its liquidation.
He said the mill provided jobs to a 1,000 people who had not been paid their salaries for 35 months.
He said that with the closure of the Shahdadkot Textile Mills, the unemployment ratio would further swell.
He urged to save the poor workers from “economical suicide” by stopping the process.
The MNA indicated that the method adopted to liquidate the Shahdadkot Textile Mills had not been applied anywhere else in the country.
However, he suggested that if privatization was the only solution, then the privatization commission’s policies should be fully observed in this context. The liquidation was in toto against the set rules of privatization of any industrial unit, the MNA maintained.
CBA: Meanwhile, Manzoor Ahmed Soomro, president, CBA of the Shahdadkot Textile Mills in a letter to the chief justice of the Sindh High Court called for stopping the liquidation.
He said that the Shahdadkot Textile Mills was closed in April 2002 when it had just started to make profits. The majority of the employees had refused golden handshake and Voluntary Separation Scheme which resulted in the stoppage of workers’ salaries.
Mr Soomro said that the management tried to seek permission from the Labour Court under 11-A but the court did not grant it, and added the case was still pending in the tribunal court and NIRC for appeal.
He said the liquidator plans to uproot the entire machinery of processing, weaving and, finally, spinning within two years’ time.
He said the liquidation would render thousands of families’ jobless and it might in turn affect the law and order situation.
