‘Double WAPDA employees’ salaries’

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The Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) Paigaam Union (PU) on Thursday took out a rally from WAPDA House to Punjab Assembly Hall against the privatisation of WAPDA and rising inflation. A large number of WAPDA officials participated in the protest and chanted slogans for their demands.
Addressing the sit-in staged in front of the Punjab Assembly Hall, WAPDA PU Chairman Muhammad Yousaf Malik said, “Owing to inflation we are facing many difficulties in our lives. Our children are deprived of education and medical facilities.” He said WAPDA workers had no control on power outages and it was the government’s negligence that had resulted in power crisis.
The chairman said WAPDA employees had been working on a fixed scale for the past 30 years and no move over or up-gradation happened in their department.  He demanded all WAPDA workers be given time scale after every five years and danger allowance be given to Grid System Operation, Grid System Construction, National Transmission and Dispatch Company and Line Staff. He also said that in the upcoming budget, salaries of WAPDA workers must be increased 100 percent.
PU President Zahoor Ahmed said that minimum salary of a worker should be Rs 15,000. he said, “We will not accept WAPDA’s privatisation at any cost. It is an issue of survival of WAPDA workers.”
Muhammad Akhlaaq, Mirza Rauf Jiraal, Usman Dogar, Zafar Iqbal,  Moulvi Akram, Hamaad Raza, Tanveer Ahmed, Malik Zafar Alam, Azam Sulehri, Muhammad Nawaz and Ataullah Durrani were also present at the protest rally.

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11 COMMENTS

  1. all try to exploit employees but nothing is done practically.

    why the Secrett. asAllowance has not yet been got approved whereas all Head-office employees of other Govt. Deptts and even in Wapda house employees of PEPCO, NTDC are enjoing it.

  2. Pl also do something about promotions in BPS 17 for B.tech HONS SUBENGINEERS and Other Caders in PEPCO, wapda already given to them but in PEPCO Stucked due to QUOTA HINDRENCE, I have 20 Years of Service and have meeting all requirements from last 5 years having 2nd no on NTDC all pakistan seniority.

    • Mr.zuberi the engineers (B.E.) do not accept B-Tech as equalant to them thats why they are creating hurdles in promotion. and you know that whole administration of WAPDA is full of Engineers.They get engineering allowance of Rs 10000. and any promoted SDO having DAE or B-Tech are not eligible for this allowance.which is not good.

  3. The Head Clerk are working in B.P.S 14 required up-gradation in B.P.S 16 as the Divisional Accounts Officer have already been given B.P.S 16, but the Clerical staff working in administrative or not been given any advantage.

  4. Please try for the 20% and the PM secretarat has already been getting the said grant in March 2013

  5. Please try for the 20% and the PM secretariat has already been getting the said grant in March 2013

  6. When people used to or try to makes other or blame other as the reason and the cause of their destruction then it is the time when a person is not able to see his own faults in his life but only put his attention on other’s fault.

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