HYDERABAD, Nov 21: The Hyderabad Development Authority Employees’ Union has warned of resorting to extreme action if salary of the HDA employees for October and November was not paid.

In a statement issued here on Tuesday, the union leaders, Aijaz Hussain, Bahram Khan and Daulat Masih, warned that the water supply and the sewerage system throughout Hyderabad and the adjoining localities would be closedif their demands were not accepted.

They said that workers had been taken into confidence for the action and the responsibility for the consequences would lie with the HDA and the district administrations.

They said that the action had become necessary as efforts to get the dues of the HDA employees had failed.

The labour leaders said said that they had asked the HDA administration, the district Nazim and the DCO, Hyderabad, in writing to ensure payment of salary for Oct and Nov to employees of the Water and Sanitation Agency and the HDA before Eid-ul-Fitr.

Besides, they said, dues of overtime, pension, commutation and other fringe benefits should also be paid without delay.

They claimed that tens of millions of rupees of Wasa and the housing projects were outstanding against the people as well as government department, including rangers, police, health — and the three talukas namely Hyderabad, Latifabad and Qasimabad, which should be recovered to ensure payment of dues to the HDA employees.

Labour union: The labour union has taken a strong exception to the proceedings of the Taluka city council in which allegations were levelled against the elected representatives of the workers.

In a statement issued here on Thursday, the president, Tehsil Council Workers’ Union, Hyderabad city, Qamoos Gul Khattak, said that the floor of the house was used to level baseless allegations of hooliganism, blackmail and extortion against the office bearers of the CBA union.

Khattak, who is also the central president, Muttahida Labour Federation of Pakistan, said that a Naib Nazim of a union council, Anwar Chundrigar, had stated that the general secretary of the CBA union, Mohammad Akram Rajput, was collecting Rs250,000 per month in extortion money.

Refuting the allegation as being simply ridiculous, he urged the city Nazim and the DCO to ask the Nazim levelling such allegation to produce evidence in this regard, failing which strict action should be taken against him.

Khattak also urged the convener of the city council to maintain decorum of the house and not to allow the use of such language, which was likely to hurt the feelings of others, and added that such utterances should be deleted from the proceedings of the house.