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NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, April 11: Kiln workers would extend protest if their employers did not attend a meeting on Friday called by DCO of Naushahro Feroze on the workers’ problems, said the Pakistan Kiln Labour Union Chairman Younus Rahu at a press conference on Wednesday.
He said that the DCO had issued fresch notices to kiln owners requiring them to attend the meeting on April 13 to solve the problems of kiln workers who had been on strike since last 12 days.
He said that they had called off the token hunger strike after the DCO assured them that he would call a meeting but regretted that they did not pay any heed to earlier calls for meetings summoned on April 9 and 11.
The fresh notices had been sent through taluka police officer, earlier the notices were sent through mukhtiarkars of revenue of Naushahro Feroze, Moro, Bhirya, Kandiaro and Mehrabpur.
Mr Rahu said that kiln owners were not paying any attention to the law and the administrations’ instructions and appealed to people to play their role in ensuring they sat on table with them to discuss labourers’ plight.
The DCO directed all the mukhtiarkars at a meeting the same day asking them to submit a detailed report on all the kilns in their respective areas.
RAID: A team of Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) along with first judicial magistrate raided on Wednesday the offices of provincial building department Naushahro Feroze, executive engineer of roads Moro and seized records.
ACE Circle Officer Mohammad Moosa Mastoi, ACE technical officer from Karachi Hafiz Safdar Ali and first judicial magistrate of Naushahro Feroze Mohammad Aslam Mazari conducted raids on the provincial building department’s office in Naushahro Feroze and seized record on mono-technical college.
The officer told journalists that the building cost Rs20 million but the substandard material had been used in the construction. The building was not yet handed over to the education department, he said.
The team also raided the office of executive engineer roads in Moro and seized record about construction of a road from the Rahim Dal Chand village to the Dittal Korai village.
The team raided the office of roads department in Naushahro Feroze and seized the record on construction of a road from Mehran Chowk to College Road.
RALLY: Activists of Sujag Baar Tehrik staged a rally and observed a token hunger strike outside the press club on Wednesday seeking recovery of Fayaz Ali, a student of class 7, who had been missing since a month and a half from Moro.
He had left home left in the evening for buying some household items and never returned.
They alleged that police were not taking interest in the case but the Moro police, when contacted, said that nobody had so far filed any FIR about the boy.
