HYDERABAD, Aug 18: The Mehran Sugar Mills Mehnatkash Union (CBA) on Saturday condemned the stoppage of annual ‘Jahez’ grant cheques to workers by the Sindh Workers Welfare Board Karachi.

In a joint statement issued here, the office-bearers of the union, Sajid Wahab Khanzada, Abdul Majeed Leghari and Mushtaq Ahmed Kaimkhani said that the move had created resentment among workers.

They said that a large number of workers who solely depended on the grant to marry off their daughters would be unable to solemnise their marriages.

The board’s officials in Karachi had informed that the Workers Welfare Board in Islamabad had stopped the ‘Jahez’ grant scheme for 2006-07, they said.

They appealed to the federal minister and secretary of labour to withdraw the orders and deliver cheques to the workers without delay to save them from mental torture.