HYDERABAD, Sept 26: The Pakistan Sugar Mills Workers Federation on Wednesday demanded that the government should direct the owners of sugar mills to implement labour laws in letter and spirit and order the Sindh Workers Welfare Board to implement Jahez grant scheme without delay.

The demands were raised at the federation’s meeting in which the union leaders, Mushtaq Kaimkhani, Mohammad Ashraf and Ali Mohammad Shah, said that the board had also stopped scholarship and sewing machine forms. First, the board suspended Jahez grant and now it had stopped issuance of scholarship and sewing machine forms, they said.

The federation’s central secretary general, Bashir Ahmed, complained that the sugar mills, which had imposed daily wage and contract system in their mills, were sacking permanent employees.

The leaders said that the Jahez grant was being given in other provinces but in Sindh it had been suspended depriving workers of financial assistance to marry off their daughters.