SUKKUR: The Sindh High Court Sukkur bench has ordered regularisation of 30 contractual employees’ jobs and directed the New Taluka Municipal Administration, Sukkur, to make arrangements accordingly.

The order was passed on a petition filed by the 30 employees recruited as driver, gardener and sanitary worker on a contract basis by the municipal administration during the period 2007-2010.

The petitioners through their counsel Zafar Eidan Mangi and Munir Ahmed Awan had informed the bench that recruitment on the posts were being made but their jobs were not being regularised.

The bench comprising Justice Shahab Sarki and Justice Irfan Saadat Khan after hearing arguments by Assistant Advocate General Imtiaz Ali Soomro and counsel of petitioners directing the respondent local government secretary and the TMA to regularise the jobs of the 30 petitioners including Ali Hassan Umrani, Pir Bukhsh Khan, Ghulam Hussain Gadani, Ashiq Mirani, Haji Abdul Ghani, Raja Bhutto and Mohammed Ali Qureshi.

Published in Dawn, August 22nd, 2014

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