HYDERABAD, March 23: The Awami Action Committee for the Rights of People has said that if the OGDC failed to fulfil its obligation of community service in a month, the people will hold protest demonstrations against it in the province. Speaking at a news conference at the Hyderabad press club on Wednesday, action committee leaders Ghulam Haider Khoso, Mukesh Kumar, Murtaza Shar and Muneer Kalyar said that the company since 1983 was extracting more than 18,000 barrels of oil per day from Tando Alam oil field and earning windfall profits but it had done nothing for the development of the area.

They said that during the last 23 years, the company had not imparted training to local people and given them employment.

They said that recently the company imparted training to 40 youths but refused employment to them.

The leaders alleged that the company was violating model petroleum agreement ordinance 2000 and demanded that it should be implemented in letter and spirit, jobs should only be provided to local youth and initiate welfare programme in the area.

They demanded that the company should make social welfare funds of the last 23 years public, construct roads, arrange potable water for the people of the area and provide gas to the people living within 10 kilometres free of cost.