SUKKUR, Nov 5: Office-bearers of the Food Department Employees Federation, Sindh, took out a procession and held a demonstration here on Friday to protest against non-acceptance of their long-standing demands.

The procession emerged from the office of the food department and after passing through main thoroughfares of the city, terminated at the Ayub Gate, where protesters staged a sit-in for about half an hour.

Later, the protesters converged at the press club to hold a demonstration. Speaking to the protesters, labour leaders said that despite approval of a summary by the Sindh chief minister as well as the Sindh cabinet, some 490 daily-wage chowkidars of the department were not regularized. Moreover, they alleged, regular chowkidars were not provided with uniforms for the last six years.

They demanded that the Sindh government should take immediate notice of irregularities prevalent in the department, and order for regularization of the chowkidars working in the department for the last 10 to 13 years.