HYDERABAD, Oct 21: The All Pakistan Clerks Association, Population Welfare Department Sindh chapter, at a meeting held here on Sunday demanded that all retrenched workers including 48 male mobilisers of the department, should be reinstated in service and all officers working on deputation in different departments should be repatriated to their parent departments.The president of Sindh chapter of the organisation, Piral Dayo, presided over the meeting.It also demanded that the services of contract and temporary employees should be regularised, a cell established at the CM House for ‘political appointments’, should be abolished and all appointments in the government departments should be made strictly on merit basis.

It said that 50 per cent employment quota should be reserved in all the government departments for the children of retired, expired and senior government employees.Expressing grave concern over the rampant unemployment, hyperinflation, lawlessness, corruption and injustices in the country, it demanded that honest and competent officers should be appointed in all the government departments of Sindh.Speaking on the occasion Piral Dayo said that the government had unleashed a negative propaganda against employees’ associations to weaken them and to enslave the employees. He said the employees’ associations were only trying to protect the legal and genuine rights of workers and they were not blackmailing anyone.He claimed that the employees’ associations were also trying to protect the government departments against corruption and malpractices.

The meeting condemned the attack on the caravan of the PPP chairperson, Benazir Bhutto, in Karachi and offered fateha for the victims of the bomb blasts.