LARKANA, July 11 Speakers at a seminar held here on Sunday welcomed the abolition of concurrent list by the 18th Amendment but stressed the need for giving more money to provinces to enable them to effectively manage the 47 subjects to be handed over to them.

The seminar on “18th Amendment package and its implementation” was organised by the Sindh Educational Development Society (SEDS) in collaboration with the UNDP and the Institute of Social Movements.

Former MNA Khalid Iqbal Memon said that besides abolishing the concurrent list the 18th Amendment had paid attention to important issues like education, health, security, finance and environment and made provinces more autonomous.

The restoration of Article 6 would stop undemocratic forces from acting against an elected government, he said.

He said the amendment was a step in the right direction and the government should immediately work out a mechanism for its effective implementation.

Mukhtiar Samo, president of the Sindh Educational Development Society, welcomed the abolition of concurrent list and urged the federal government to ensure that provinces received more funds to manage the 47 devolved subjects.

Inayatullah Morio, president of the Sindh High Court Bar Association's Larkana chapter, said that implementation of laws had been a big challenge and non-implementation of courts' decisions was forcing people to take to the streets to get justice.

Because of attitude of the authorities concerned people were forced to adopt unlawful means to get something done or get justice, he said.

He said that provinces should get equal share in jobs in federal government departments. The Supreme Court should take suo motu notice of water scarcity in Sindh, which had rendered vast areas barren, he said.

Advocate Kalpna Devi regretted that the women protection bill was not being implemented in letter and spirit.