KARACHI: Social security cover to be extended: minister
KARACHI, June 30: Sindh Minister for labour, transport and industries, Mohammad Adil Siddiqui, has stressed the need for redoubling the efforts to extend social security benefits to workers of less-developed areas of the province.
He was presiding over a meeting of the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution at its head office here on Monday.
The meeting reviewed the functioning of the SESSI, especially in the interior of the province.
Speaking on the occasion, the minister said social security scheme plays a vital role in the industrial progress of the country by fulfilling the socio-economic needs of workers for achieving the targets of production in various industrial fields.
“Every effort should be undertaken to make the scheme more and more beneficial to the working class,” the minister said while exhorting the functionaries to utilize all available resources judiciously by avoiding all sorts of leakages as well as wastages.
He underlined the importance of welfare services and said in an Islamic state it is the duty of society as a whole to look after the poor, needy, orphans and the disabled.—APP
