Workers shut all RO plants across Thar

E-Paper | April 26, 2026

MITHI: Protesting workers of reverse osmosis plants closed down over 450 plants across Thar to press for release of four-month salary.

The plants’ closure caused severe water crisis in the towns as well as villages, forcing them to fall back on the brackish and often toxic water of wells.

The unpaid workers after having received no response from the functionaries concerned closed down all the plants on Friday.

Thar Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Asif Jameel confirmed closure of the plants and said that high-ups had already been informed of the situation.

Published in Dawn, October 6th, 2018

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SHAHID SATTAR

Oct 06, 2018 06:07pm

Are the employees residents of the same region? Have they accumulated water for their families or are they also suffering the same fate as the other hapless residents of the region?

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Ranjhana

Oct 06, 2018 07:14pm

@SHAHID SATTAR what will you do if you are starving and now paid salary for months. Will you keep working?

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Syed Qadri

Oct 06, 2018 08:02pm

How many of us feel the pain and problems of a person that has not received salary for four months! The family virtually turns a beggar promising everyone that they will return the money or pay for their groceries as soon as they get the salary. Shame on authorities that become onlookers on such matters

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SHAHID SATTAR

Oct 07, 2018 11:38am

@Ranjhana That these facilities are over staffed many times over the actual requirements is well known to every one in this country. The contractor feels the punch eventually and is bound to stop paying wages. Why can't some of the staff protest while some go on running these plants goes only to show that there are hidden hands at work here who wish to fail the system. May be some other contractor is interested and is being favoured by the powers that be?

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