September 24, 2008	Wednesday	Ramazan 23, 1429

HYDERABAD, Sept 23: Signature campaign for amending Sindh Tenancy Act and setting up peasant courts was launched outside the press club here on Tuesday by the Sindh Hari Porhiyat Council.

Leader of Chambar Hari Tahreek and Sindh Tenancy Act Tahreek, comrade Ahmed Leghari, leader of Bhandar Hari Sangat, Ms Shaheena Ramzan and President Sindh Hari Council, Punhal Sario and other hari leaders inaugurated the campaign.

They called for implementation of proposals in regard to amendments by incorporating the same in the act as these were handed over to Anwar Ali Mehar, head of the Special Committee of the former Sindh Assembly. They claimed the proposals were strictly based on the UN’s Human Rights Charter.

Leaders said that it was proposed to register all hari families, introduce a transparent system for maintaining accounts of hari and zamindar, and establish hari courts for resolution of disputes between haris and zamindars.

bill payment: An agreement has been signed between Hesco and UBL for providing online facilities to Hesco consumers for payment of bills.

The deal was signed on Monday by the Chief Executive Hesco, Guftar Ahmed Anjum and UBL Business Head, Aurangzeb Alamgir.

Hesco chief said that the company wanted to provide maximum facilities to its consumers and now consumers would be able to deposit their electricity bills through mobile phone, Internet and toll free centres.

He expressed the hope that this would facilitate rural population. Consumers would no more make queues to deposit their bills he said adding more banks would be brought under this service.

Aurangzeb Alamgir said that initially this facility will be available only to account holders while they can also pay their bills through mobile phone as the bank will soon introduce credit cards.

The UBL had signed similar agreements with the PTCL and the SSGC and with mobile phone companies, he said.

Chief Engineer Hesco, K.B.Qureshi, Shaikh Nazeer Ahmed, Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah and other senior officers of the two organisations were also present on the occasion. allotments: The Board of Revenue was delaying allotment of land to allotees of Daman-e-Kohisar at the rate of Rs500,000 per acre though it had been issued a letter by former Commissioner of Hyderabad Division Imtiaz Ali Qazi in this regard. This was alleged by the Chairman, Human Rights Movement Pakistan International Hamid Khanzada.

He asked the BoR to implement the decision within 15 days or the affectees of Daman-e-Kohisar would stage a sit-in outside the Governor House and Chief Minister House Karachi, and Aiwan-e-Sadar Islamabad.

He was speaking as chief guest at an Iftar party hosted by the affectees of Welfare Cooperative Society, Daman-e-Kohisar, Deh Ganjo Takkar, Latifabad, on Monday.

President of the society, Arshad Ali Rajput said that the allottees had been waiting for last 14 years but the BoR seems to be sleeping over the matter. He said that the case was also pending with the Ombudsman for last eight years without a decision. A large number of allottees attended the function.

They demanded of the President of Pakistan and Sindh Governor and Chief Minister to resolve the problem of the affected allottees through a resolution.