HYDERABAD, Jan 2: The Retired Employees Welfare Association, City Council, has appealed to the Sindh governor, chief minister, chief secretary and the secretary, Local Bodies, to direct relevant authorities to pay the outstanding dues
of the retired employees.
In a joint statement issued here on Thursday, the president of the association, Sageer Ahmed Rajput, and general secretary, Syed Iqbal Hussain Shah, said retired employees of the local councils and their families were starving as they had not been paid their outstanding dues, including gratuity.
They said government functionaries never tired of proclaiming that they were working for the welfare of the people but this claim was restricted only to press statements whereas the ground reality was that the bureaucracy took years to prepare documents of retired employees and wasted many more in clearing the dues.
They regretted that many employees had died during the tiring process. They appealed to the provincial authorities to realize the plight of the retired workers and direct the authorities concerned to clear the dues without delay.
SU SENATE: The authorities of the Sindh University announced here on Thursday the schedule for the university senate elections to be held on Feb 25. Nomination papers have been invited in this regard from lecturers and assistant/associate professors of different departments and institutes associated with the Constituency of University Teachers. Twelve teachers having at least three years service would be elected.
Prescribed nomination forms can be obtained from the election cell of the university during office hours on working days as well as copies of election rules on payment of the prescribed fee.
Moreover, preliminary voters list is available for inspection in the election cell while the same can be obtained by prospective voters on payment of the prescribed fee.
Date for filing of objections to entries in the preliminary list has been fixed as Jan 14 whereas the final list of voters would be published on Jan 19. Nomination forms - proposed, seconded and accepted by the candidates - duly attested by the dean, director and/or chairperson of the respective faculty, institute or department would be received in person or by registered post up to Jan 22 by the deputy registrar (G&A).
