HYDERABAD, July 11: The president Employees Action Committee of the defunct SRTC, Haji Ghulam Mohammad Deepar, has demanded the payment of 15 per cent mark-up on employees dues as per the Sept 6, 1999 agreement.

He reminded the district Nazim Hyderabad, Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman, that in the meeting held on May 16, the former employees of the SRTC had postponed their hunger strike on the promise that the employees would be paid mark-up in accordance with the agreement of Dec 6, 1999, signed between the Sindh government and the employees representatives.

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