HYDERABAD, Feb 2: The Pakistan Wapda Employees’ Pegham Union has demanded of Wapda authorities to announce two bonuses for employees and restore generation and hardship allowances.

Speaking at a news conference at the local press club on Sunday, the union leaders said that Wapda employees were working under tremendous pressure because of job insecurity, due to which ratio of accidental deaths had increased manifold.

The workers, they said, were issued show-cause notices on flimsy grounds, transferred to remote areas for minor errors and even were sent packing without any logical reasons.

They said that the situation had become so tense that both the workers and the administration appeared dissatisfied with the performance of each other.

They deplored that no action was taken after a Wapda employee was subjected to violence during the course of recovery of dues.

The union leaders said that before the induction of army in Wapda, the ratio of accidental deaths and injuries was between one and two per cent, but now it had increased four times because of the promulgation of new laws.

Those, who spoke at the news conference, included Anwar Naeem Khan and Nawaz Ali Jakhrani.

DEMONSTRATION: The contract doctors staged a demonstration outside the local press club on Sunday against the delay in regularization of their services.

The protest was organized by the Contract Doctors Forum, Sindh.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr Abdur Razzak Baloch and others deplored that members of the Sindh Assembly had not kept their promise to raise the issue on the floor of the house.

They urged the assembly members to introduce a bill in this regard, besides demanding payment of their dues without any further delay.