LAHORE, Jan 6; The National Assembly standing committee on railways has ordered production of complete record of sales and leasing of railways land in its next meeting. Orders for the production of record were issued during a meeting of the committee held at the Railways Headquarters here on Friday with Sardar Tufail Ahmed Khan in chair. The general manager presenting the record would also brief the committee on projects concerning the land.

The committee was briefed on the progress of dualizing the track by the project director. Answering a question about the privatisation of railways schools, GM (Manufacturing) Aurangzeb Khan said that a complete report would be submitted in this regard within a week.

The meeting was attended by Ishaq Khan Khakwani, Muhammad Saeed Virk, Sahibzada Muhammad Mahboob Sultan, Pir Muhammad Shah Khagga, Syed Gulzar Sibtain Shah, Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Tasnim Ahmed Qureshi, Mrs Nasim Akhtar Chaudhry, Muhammad Farooq Azam Malik, Qazi Hamidullah Khan, Abdul Sattar Afghani and Dev Das. plea: National Labour Federation president Mirajuddin Khan has demanded repeal of the Removal from Service Ordinance to check its misuse as an instrument of victimization.

Speaking at a meeting of trade union leaders here on Friday, the NLF president said bureaucracy was using the ordinance for suppression of trade union activities by victimizing the activists.

The ordinance was being used to create an atmosphere of fear in the government organizations because it authorized the bureaucrats to dismiss any employee without giving an opportunity of defence, he said.

He said the ordinance should be repealed immediately because it contravened the principles of justice, and all those dismissed from service under it should be given a chance to defend themselves. Repeal of the law was also necessary for the promotion of good relations between the employers and the employees.