The employees of Larkana Development Authority (LDA) and Larkana Municipal Corporation (LMC) have not yet been paid their monthly salaries since long rendering them helpless with no signs of respite.
The LDA employees are protesting since last 25 days without any notice by the concerned higher authorities while the LMC employees are also planning to demonstrations even though they have been physically verified by their bosses that they are regularly performing their government duties.
The LDA employees have not received their salaries since last 14 months and the LMC employees since last six months which shows that the Sindh government is either facing financial crisis or is deliberately avoiding payment to their own appointees. As many as 272 LDA employees are soliciting their right by taking out rallies and holding demos daily for which they have established a camp at Jinnah Bagh roundabout.
Hafeez Chandio, Shahjahan Kalhoro, Asghar Shah, Hamid Kalhoro, Shahbaz Pathan, Feroze Khokhar and others of LDA Employees Association told media on Wednesday that it was irony that present rulers had completely ignored their voice by closing their ears as they had been denied their monthly salaries since over a year.
As many as 524 LMC low-paid employees have also not been paid their monthly salaries since the last five months, November 2014, forcing them to face hunger-like situation. All of them have been physically verified by the administrator and their duties have been fixed in various sections including anti-encroachment cell, traffic cell and elsewhere where they are delivering punctually everyday but without pay. They warned of taking to streets and take out rallies for seeking justice. They further said that both LDA and LMC employees are working under the administrative control of local government department of the Sindh government but both are on the Larkana streets for seeking their legal and moral rights.
NURSING EMPLOYEES DEPRIVED OF THREE-MONTH SALARIES
Over two dozen employees of the Directorate of Nursing have not been paid three-moth salaries due to non-posting of director on vacant post, it was learned on Wednesday.
Sources at the Directorate of Nursing seeking anonymity said that three major posts, including a director and two deputy directors nursing, were lying vacant since last few months, causing serious inconvenience to staff and students. Due to non-posting of director on vacant post, over two dozen employees of directorate of nursing and nursing examination board Sindh have been deprived of their salaries since last three months.
They informed that Directorate of Nursing Director Talat Shah had retired from her post in December 2014, while deputy director education and deputy director services’ posts were lying vacant since several months. The staff and the students are facing great hardship as provincial authorities could not fill these posts yet.
Dozens of employees of the Sindh Nursing Examination Board had been deprived of their three month salaries due to signature of director on their pay slips. The employees have showed their concern over delay in appointment of director on vacant post.
The sources said that hundreds of male and female students who applied for diploma were also facing inconvenience due to non-posting of director and deputy directors. The nursing students belonging to interior Sindh were also facing great difficulties to get their diplomas.
Many nursing students who applied for jobs in public and private sector hospitals were also facing hardships over non-issuance of their diplomas as they were regularly visiting the directorate since last several weeks.
Focal Person Provincial Nurses Association (PNA) Ejaz Ahmed Kaleri said all financial, administrative and other officials’ works had been disturbed due to non-posting of director on vacant post at directorate of nursing. He said the summery to appoint new director had been sent for approval three month ago which was still pending in the health department. He said the health department tried to appoint a non-technical person Uzair Rustam Baloch on the post of deputy director nursing, but later cancelled the notification over strong protest of nursing organisations.
Assistant Nursing Director at Directorate Nursing Sindh Khair-un-Nisa when contacted said that the director nursing post was still lying vacant despite passage of three months as summery could not be approved yet.
