HYDERABAD, Sept 20: The Zeal Pak Cement Factory Employees Union (CBA) has appealed to the prime minister, the governor, and the chief minister of Sindh and the district nazim to direct the CBR, Hesco and Sui gas to give some respite to the factory as it has run into heavy losses during recent heavy rains.

The factory’s CBA met on Tuesday to discuss the losses to the factory. Haji Sher Zaman presided over the meeting.

The union’s general secretary, Syed Ahmed Shah, said that the factory had sustained Rs500 million losses and had remained closed for last 12 days because its machinery had stopped functioning after the residue cement hardened in it. The cement was now being drilled out from the machines, he said.

The recent heavy rains have proved the last straw for the factory, which was already in the grip of financial crisis, he said expressing regret that none of the government departments had so far taken any notice of the heavy losses to industrial sector.

The meeting adopted a unanimous resolution requesting the prime minister, governor, chief minister and district nazim to take serious notice of huge losses to the factory and appealed to them to direct the CBR, Hesco and Sui gas to give some respite to the factory to enable it to resume production.