LARKANA, March 6: The fate of the regular employees of the defunct Larkana Development Authority remained undecided as no department is ready to accommodate them.

The LDA was devolved in July 2002 and since then its eight permanent employees, including two sub-engineers, a junior clerk, a tracer, a guard and a driver, had been waiting for their postings.

Sources told Dawn on Thursday that lately the taluka municipal administration, Larkana, had refused to adjust the staff of the defunct LDA citing unavailability of funds.

The district Nazim had, in a letter sent to the DCO, had called for adjusting the employees of the defunct LDA in different departments against existing vacancies.

He had stated that 33 posts were lying vacant in the works and services department as the incomplete projects of defunct body had been transferred to the same department for execution.

The district Nazim had further asked the DCO to issue orders regarding these employees in accordance with his proposal.

DISPUTE SETTLED: Differences between the employees of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education and workers of the Jeay Sindh Students Federation were settled after marathon talks, which were held till late Wednesday night.

The situation became tense after the Board’s staff and JSSF workers had lodged FIRs against each other in the Waleed police station.

The JSSF workers had accused the Board’s management of charging excessive fees while the BISE employees had accused the JSSF workers of attacking the Board office.

Sikandar Mirjat, representing the clerical staff of the BISE, and Athar Soomro, representing the JSSF, told this correspondent on Thursday that it had been decided to forego past differences and forgive each other of excesses.

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