HYDERABAD, Aug 20: The Tehsil Council Workers Union Hyderabad (CBA) at a meeting held on Monday expressed grave concern over the non-payment of salaries for the month of June to the local council employees throughout Pakistan and demanded that the local council employees of Hyderabad, Latifabad, and Qasimabad Talukas should be paid their salaries for the month of June without any further delay as their families were starving.

In another resolution, the meeting demanded that the salary of the preceding month should be paid without delay by the 10th of the next month.

It further demanded that as per the written agreement of Nov 1, 1994 the employees should be given proprietary rights of the houses they were living in free of cost; besides, advances for house purchase, motorcycles, and scholarships should be given.

It said that the agreement about 40 per cent employment quota for the employees’ children should be implemented and a piece of land should be made available for the residential colony of the employees.

In another resolution, the meeting demanded that the contaminated water should be drained out of the minority’s graveyard of Tando Yousuf.

The meeting condemned the terrorist attacks on the worship places of the minorities and expressed solidarity with them.

It called upon the government to take stern action against the terrorists and provide foolproof protection for the worship places of the minorities.

It expressed gratitude to the provincial ombudsman for his orders to all the local councils of the province for the payment of outstanding dues to the retired employees.

It appealed to him to take suo motu action regarding the non-payment of a month’s salary to the local council employees as well as the remaining outstanding dues to the retired employees.