PESHAWAR, Feb 3: Sacked employees of the Tawana Pakistan Project (TPP) on Sunday expressed concern over the delay in their reinstatement and demanded of the prime minister to materialise the official directives in this regard.

“We have been virtually made to starve,” they said while talking to the media here on Sunday. “It’s going two months to lapse but no concerned official is taking interests in our reinstatement.”

Expressing concern over the situation they said a federal secretary had allegedly made a single-sided inquiry and tempered with the record with the help of an additional secretary, officials of the special education and Pakistan Baitul Mall “just to satisfy his personnel venom”.

The officials neglected the prime minister’s call for review, they alleged, the conspirators had removed many high-ups from their seats including director-general and national project director in order to have a ‘safe way for embezzlement’ in the project money.

During the two-month timeframe, after they were sacked, no work has been carried out on any project of the Social Welfare Department, they added.

“We were made jobless without any legal procedure,” they said, adding that they were subjected to one-sided inquiry. While soliciting the caretaker prime minister, Mian Mohammad Soomro, to conduct an investigation under his personnel supervision into the matter, they also called upon the chief justice of Pakistan to take sue-motto action in this regard.

It is to mention here that about 350 employees working in the project were rendered jobless on the reported decision of caretaker minister, Shahida Jamil, and secretary Rasul Baksh Baloch, the program was made to stop at ten districts.

The project was to provide juices, milk and biscuits to girl students of the age group five to twelve years, in government primary schools of backward areas to encourage school enrolments in Badin, Pishin, Pakpattan, Turbat, Gwadar, Thatta, Muzaffargarh, D.G. Khan, Lakki Marwat, Mardan and other areas.—Bureau Report