HYDERABAD, Feb 11: The DCO of Dadu on Tuesday assured a division bench of the Sindh High Court, Hyderabad, that dues of five sanitary workers of the Kotri taluka municipal administration would be cleared in two instalments in six months.

The workers, Gulab, Qurban Ali, Jagga, Ms Vero and Karmoon, had filed a petition against the Kotri taluka Nazim, taluka municipal officer and the Dadu DCO for delaying the payment of their dues. They had retired from service between March and June last year.

The DCO, Aijaz Mangi, attended the court in response to a directive issued by the bench, comprising Justice Mohammad Musa K. Leghari and Justice Khilji Arif Hussain, asking the Sindh additional advocate general to make a deinite statement as to when the taluka municipal administration would make the payment. The Sindh AAG also attended the court.

The Kotri taluka municipal officer submitted a letter, addressed to the local government section officer-III, mentioning therein that the payment of gratuity to retired employees should be made from government funds as the TMA was receiving only Rs616,800 per month against salaries of Rs750,000.