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HYDERABAD, Jan 28: A large number of union council Nazims took out a protest procession from the district council building to the press club on Wednesday against the non-allocation of funds from the octroi tax to union councils.
They said they had been constantly raising the issue for the last two and a half years but they were not allocated funds from the octroi tax which was their legal right.
Speaking on the occasion, Qazi Abdul Qadeer, Rauf Jafri, Shafqat Soho, Karim Talpur, Khawind Bux Jahejo, Ali Nawaz Kutrio and others claimed that funds were lying with the DCO but he had failed to make allocations to the union councils.
They said they had been protesting for the last three days against the non-allocation of funds to the union councils of interior Sindh but no one was prepared to redress their grievances.
They said the allocation of funds was their right and the authorities would be doing no favour to them if the funds were allocated. They resolved to continue their protest till the release of funds.
Rauf Jafri said an amount of Rs21,000 per month was being given to some of the union councils of the urban areas which was just a peanut. He demanded that all the 102 union councils of the district should be allocated Rs50,000 each per month from the octroi tax fund.
GODOWN WORKERS: Over a dozen food grain godown employees staged a protest demonstration bare-chested with bricks tied on their stomachs as a symbol of starvation against the non- regularization of their services and non-payment of their two months salaries.
Talking to newsmen Shabir Soomro, Ghulam Ali Khaskheli, Zafar Soomro, Mohammad Akram and others said although the Sindh chief minister had announced that the services of non-regular employees would be regularized, but this announcement had not been implemented.
They said they had served the department for 10 to 12 years yet their services had not been regularized. They said that they had also not been paid their salaries for the last two months.
They warned that if their salaries were not paid before Eidul Azha, they would stage a protest demonstration outside the press club on Eid day and announce a programme of self-immolation.
DEMO: A large number of Sindhis displaced from Sehrish Nagar, Qasimabad, under the banner of Sindhi Qaumi Saath, staged a protest demonstration outside the press club on Wednesday against the land grabbers.
Talking to newsmen they said the Sindh government had promised to rehabilitate the affected families of 1988-90 ethnic riots in Sehrish Nagar phase-II, but this land had been occupied by the land grabbers. SQS leader Hafeez Qureshi said the police and the officials of the revenue department were also in league with the land grabbers.
