SUKKUR, Nov 17: Chairman, All Pakistan Organisation of Small Traders and Cottage Industries, Haji Muhammad Haroon Memon has said that the ministry of water and power announced the reduction of 13 per cent of electricity tariff without taking into confidence traders and taking suggestions from the special committee formed for the purpose.

Talking to traders on Monday, he demanded of the government to restore old tariffs. He criticised the increase in fee on new connections as this would discourage those intending for new ones.

He said although power tariff hike during last several months was around 70 per cent electricity but the decrease was only 13 per cent.

He blamed the federal government of overlooking suggestions of traders, industrialists and business community.

Meanwhile, office-bearers of the Sukkur Small Traders, including Asif Ghouri, Haji Muhammad Sabir, Tahir Khan, Abdul Rehman Ansari, Moulana Usman Faizi and others criticised the construction of plaza and shopping centre on the plot of Khuda Dad Municipal Dispensary, Station Road Sukkur.

They said that the municipal dispensary was located at the main area of the city and people of town were availing health facilities from nearby dispensary but builders with the connivance of taluka municipal administration Sukkur had demolished it and erecting a plaza and a shopping centre on it.

They demanded of the Governor Sindh, Sindh Chief Minister, Provincial Minister for Local Bodies, provincial secretary local bodies, Federal Minister Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, MNA Noman Islam Shaikh, MPA Dr, Nasrullah Baloch to play their role for re-establishing Khuda Dad Khan Dispensary at the same place.