HYDERABAD, Sept 20: The employees of National Programme for Family Planning and Primary Healthcare have said that the employees had not received salaries for the last three months while the employees of other three provinces had already received their salaries.

They also deplored the inordinate delay in the regularisation of their services.

Speaking at a press conference at the press club here on Saturday, Ms Rukhsana Mughal, Saeeda Shaheen, Mohammad Akram Malik and others, said that the national programme was introduced by Shaheed Benazir Bhutto as far back as 1994 with the nomenclature of “Prime Minister programme” and said that they had hoped that when PPP came into power, their services will be regularised as promised by her.

“It is our misfortune that she was martyred before she could fulfil her promises”, they lamented. They said that prime minister had recently announced that services of all the contract employees will be regularised but unfortunately this has not been done.

According to the announcement by the prime minister, the minimum wages of employees have been fixed at Rs6,000 per month but no increase has been effected in our salaries, they complained.

They appealed to the president and prime minister to fulfil the promise of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto by regularising their services and also to release their three-month salaries without any further delay.