HYDERABAD, Aug 7: Hesco Chief Executive Officer Guftar Ahmed Anjum here on Thursday distributed 137 job offer letters among the children of deceased employees of the company’s under a special quota for appointment in grade 1 to 11.

Speaking on the occasion, he said the company owed this to its deceased employees and congratulated the children who were given offer letters.

He said even before this, 150 children had been given employment in Hesco under the fixed quota and added that the credit for this went to Hydro Union specially its leaders Abdul Latif Nizamani and Mohammad Iqbal Kaimkhani.

He also distributed 19 cheques of Rs200,000 each on behalf of an NGO, Barkab, among the employees for marriages of their children and cheques of Rs3,000 each among two childern of Hesco employees for securing position in recent examinations.

On behalf of the NGO, he announced a stipend of Rs1,000 per month for life for two disabled employees of the company.

DEMO: The activists of PPP-SB staged a demonstration outside the press club here on Thursday to protest against the arrest of their leader Akbar Bhand by the Baldia police of Hyderabad.

Speaking on the occasion they alleged that under a planned conspiracy, an operation had been launched against the party activists under the orders of the home ministry.They alleged that police had been given instructions by the ministry to implicate PPP-SB activists in ‘false’ cases.

They appealed to the superior judiciary and human rights organisations to take notice of these excesses.