DADU, Sept 9: Four thousand employees of the forest department, working in several districts throughout the Sindh province, have not received their salaries since June as a result of which they are facing hardships.

These employees included divisional forest officers, district forest officers, range forest officers, foresters, forest guards, watchmen, pump operators, machinery operators, drivers, peons, watchmen of nurseries, clerks and seasonal work charge employees.

It was learnt that the finance department, Sindh, has not settled the issue as to which employees were with the district government and which with the provincial forest department.

The finance department has not released the salaries of employees working at the divisional and district forest offices of Hyderabad, Thatta, Dadu, Mirpurkhas, Nawabshah, Badin, Sukkur, Khairpur, Naushahro Feroze, Shikarpur, Jacobabad and Larkana.

The district Nazim of Dadu, Malik Asad Sikandar, confirmed that employees of the forest department working under the district government had not received their salaries and the district government had written to the finance department to release their salaries.

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