OKARA: The Okara Municipal Committee (MC) administration has issued permanent workman letters to 122 contractual and daily wage workers serving with the MC for more than five years.

The MC office order reads that the workers would be entitled to the rights and benefits of a permanent worker.

Outgoing MC chairman Muhammad Azhar said the World Bank (WB) had announced providing development schemes worth Rs2 billion for the city. After the restoration of local government institutions, the WB released Rs370 million for development schemes. Then MC administration bought 20 vehicles for garbage collection, water spray, and other tasks.

The MC administration staged a rally to celebrate the occasion and to exhibit the recently-bought trucks, tractors and motorcycles.

Speakers, mostly the local PML-N leadership, criticised ruling party leaders for “sticking to the office of deputy commissioners and district police officers for photo sessions only”. They said the PTI leaders could not provide public facilities to both rural and urban areas of the district.

Workers and councillors kept on chanting slogans in favour of the PML-N leadership.

MC officers did not participate in the function held on the lawns of the MC office. The MC chairman, however, appreciated MC officials for their cooperation with him.

Published in Dawn, December 29th, 2021