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HYDERABAD, Sept 27: The district council here on Saturday rejected the government notification on payment of honourarium to Nazims and their deputies saying that the amount was equal to the salary of a sanitary worker.
The council session also observed that the members elected on reserved seats had been ignored.
The members staged walkouts twice to lodge their protest against the government decision and some of them announced that they would not draw the honorarium.
They were of the view that the Sindh chief minister had earlier said that Nazims would get honorarium equivalent to the salary of a grade-17 officer.
As the proceeding of the session continued on the sixth consecutive day on Saturday, woman councillor Wahida Feroze rose on a point of order to express objections over the notification.
She said that it was the height of injustice that a Nazim would get Rs3,000 whereas a Naib Nazim would receive Rs2,000 and reserved seats members would get nothing.
She led a protest walkout from the session.
When the session resumed, it demanded that the district council members should be given honorarium mentioned in a unanimously passed resolution.
Ghulam Raza Shah, Yousuf Qureshi, Rauf Jafri, Hussain Bux Hussaini and Saira Naseer participated in the debate on the issue.
Convener Nawab Rashid Ali Khan asked the DCO to present audit report of the last two years in the session.
The directive was issued after the session initiated a debate on the report of Rana Mehmood Ali Khan about two years’ performance of the district council.
He read his detailed report after which Dr Ayaz Arain initiated the debate which was continuing when the session was adjourned for Monday.
The session also offered Fateha for the departed soul of veteran politician and Alliance for Restoration of Democracy chief Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan.
INQUIRY: The health adviser, Sindh, Noman Saigal, said the other day that he was holding an inquiry as to how property of the Civil Hospital Hyderabad had been or was being disposed of to private persons in two separate cases.
Talking with journalists at the residence of provincial minister Dr Irfan Magsi, Mr Saigal said that those found guilty in the inquiry would be booked under relevant sections of the law.
