HYDERABAD: Powerhouse employees to hold rallies on 13th
By Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, Dec 8: The All-Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union has criticized what it called inordinate delay in resolution of problems of employees of powerhouses.
In a joint statement issued here on Wednesday, union chairman Mohammad Sajan Panhwar, senior vice-chairman Allah Dino Mastoi and other leaders regretted that Wapda authorities at their meeting held in the first week of December had ignored demands of the employees for generation and hardship allowances and housing facilities.
They announced that employees of powerhouses would hold protest demonstrations throughout the country on Dec 13 to protest against non-acceptance of their demands.
SPLA: The Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association, Sachal Sarmast arts and commerce college units, at a meeting held here on Wednesday condemned amendments to the constitution of the association at its recent annual convention.
Prof Allah Dino Soomro presided over the meeting. SPLA founder Prof Liaquat Aziz Solangi and Prof Nazeer Hussain Pathan attended the meeting as special guests. The meeting termed the amendments illegal because the quorum was not complete. It said there were also procedural illegalities.
It urged the chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad, to order an impartial inquiry into examination duties and assessment copies in the annual examination of 2003.
The meeting demanded early issuance of a notification in respect of promotions from grade 17 to grade 20 and in remaining move-over cases. It further demanded that vacant posts of college principals and teachers should be filled without delay and separate seniority lists should be prepared for teachers of government and nationalized cadres.
It said the government should upgrade 33 per cent posts of librarians and directors of physical education and restore the original status of the teachers' foundation and the college teachers' academy.
