HYDERABAD: Employees hold demo

Published January 3, 2003

HYDERABAD, Jan 2: The Sazda employees held a demonstration outside the Hyderabad Press Club on Thursday to protest against the non-implementation of notification dated November 12, 2002 about the adjustment of the employees in other departments.

Talking to newsmen, the leaders of the employees action committee, Zafar Solangi, Agha Masood Nabi, Nizamuddin Chakrani and others said that with the approval of the Sindh Cabinet, Sazda employees who had 18 years of service were directed to be absorbed on a permanent basis in other departments.

They said that two months had passed but the notification had not been implemented.

They said 650 families were facing starvation.

They warned that if the said notification was not implemented within a week, the employees would resort to hunger strikes throughout the province.—Bureau

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