HYDERABAD: Jobs for local people in gas plant urged
By Bureau Report
HYDERABAD, Feb 27: Activists of the Jeay Sindh Mahaz and residents of different villages of Shah Bukhari Deh held a protest demonstration outside the press club
here on Sunday against possible emission of poisonous gas from the Jamshoro Joint Venture Gas Plant, recruitment of outsiders in the plant and denial of facilities to local people.
Speaking on the occasion, divisional JSM coordinator claimed that the gas plant had been illegally established in the residential and agricultural area which could affect the health of people due to emission of poisonous gas.
He said thousands of local people had applied for jobs in the gas plant but the management had ignored them. He said there were 150 security guards but all of them were outsiders.
He warned that if local people were not given employment and steps were not taken to check the emission of poisonous gas from the plant, protest demonstrations would be held outside the plant.
STPP: Activists of the Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Mazdoor Federation observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Sunday to protest against non-employment of local people in public and private sector enterprises, alleged usurpation of Sindh's natural resources by outsiders and 'anti-Sindh' projects.
Speaking on the occasion, federation president Nusrat Hussain Channa, Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party deputy general- secretary Hoat Khan Gadhi and other leaders observed that people of Sindh had exclusive right on resources of the province.
They demanded that Sindhis should be given priority in jobs in public and private sector industries in Sindh. They further demanded that appointment of outsiders in industrial units of Sindh should be banned, Industrial Relations Ordinance, 2002, be repealed and minimum wages of workers be fixed equal to the price of 10 grams of gold.
They warned that people of Sindh would not accept construction of the Kalabagh dam and the greater Thal canal and bifurcation of the Hyderabad district.
HUNGER STRIKE: A large number of people observed a token hunger strike outside the press club here on Sunday to protest against the inordinate delay in arrest of killers of Allama Agha Ziauddin Rizvi.
They were led by Kazim Hussain Shah Naqvi, Nizamul Haideri, Moazzam Kazim Naqvi and other Shia leaders. Speaking on the occasion, they demanded immediate arrest of the killers of Allama Rizvi. Similar demonstrations were also held in Kotri and Jamshoro.
