HYDERABAD, Jan 8: Syed Manzar Abbas, Director, Sindh Kutchi Abadis Authority, Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions, announced on Tuesday that the authority was regularizing and upgrading the notified kutcha abadis of various councils all over Sindh as well as in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas divisions.
For regularization of kutcha abadis, Rustam Khan Lashari, Assistant Engineer, has been nominated as the in charge, Lease Camp, for Shahdadpur and Sanghar District, M. Aslam, accounts officer for Qasimabad Taluka, Tando Allahyar, Kotri and Mirpurkhas, Ali Akbar Khokhar, design officer for Taluka and Thatta District, and Imdad Ali Lashari, superintendent for Badin District.
The director has called upon all the residents of kutcha abadis to contact the above officers and get their proprietary rights after payment of government dues without any further delay.
SRTC: The action committee, SRTC former employees at a meeting held here the other day resolved to resume protest movement against the non-payment of outstanding dues including 15 per cent mark-up to 1,753 former employees of the corporation.
The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the committee held here the other day under the chairmanship of Syed Ahmed Ali Shah.
The meeting pointed out that according to the written agreement, all the dues including gratuity and provident fund were to be paid by Dec 6, 2000 at the latest.
It claimed that since the government had failed to clear all the dues by the due date, they were entitled to 15 per cent mark-up on their outstanding dues as envisaged in the written agreement.
It noted that if the government continued the practice of paying dues in instalments, it would take many years to clear all the dues.
The meeting demanded that the gratuity, G.P. fund, and 15 per cent mark-up should be paid to the employees without delay failing which they would be forced to hold protests.
SPSC: The secretary of Sindh Public Service Commission has announced here on Monday that the commission had scheduled interviews for the posts of lecturers/subject specialists in Political Science, Zoology, Botany, Chemistry, Sindhi, and Islamic Culture, from Monday Jan 14 at Hyderabad and Karachi.
He also announced that the commission had scheduled pre- interview written tests of assistant sub-inspectors of police at Karachi on Jan 13, at Hyderabad on Jan 20 and at Sukkur on Jan 27.
He said the interview letters for both kinds of posts had been issued and those not in receipt may contact nearest SPSC office.
SDA: A central leader of the newly-formed Sindh Democratic Alliance (SDA), Imtiaz Shaikh said that the response received by the SDA from “heavy-weight politicians” has created a stir among the political forces of Sindh, and added that out of sheer frustration these forces were levelling the allegations that the SDA enjoyed the blessings of the government and it comprised of a group of Jagirdars and Zamindars.
He was talking to journalists at a reception hosted in honour of SDA leaders at Matiari on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Monday.
Another leader of the SDA, Syed Jalal Mehmood Shah said that in the forthcoming elections the PPP would not be allowed to use the Sindh card which it had always used to come into power.