The Sindh Assembly on Friday passed two government bills unanimously.
The passed bills were Govt Bill 38/2015 The Sindh Companies Profits (Workers’ Participation) Bill 2015, and another bill tabled under supplementary agenda of day named Govt Bill 8/2016 The Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University of Technology and Skill Development Khairpur Bill 2016. Both the bills were tabled by senior minister for parliamentary affairs Nisar Ahmed Khuhro.
Earlier, the MQM members protested when two government ministers could not answer a call attention of Dewan Chand Chawla of the MQM. When the CM Syed Qaim Ali Swhah stood to answer the call attention notice, he called the mover an ‘actor’. However, Chawla strongly protested, saying he was an assembly member and not an actor. He regretted that a representative of people was being called an actor because he was daring to raise a matter of poor people on the floor of assembly. Other MQM members also protested loudly, and the chief minister could not continue his speech. Later, the speaker ordered to expunge the objectionable words.
Dewan Chand Chawla in his call attention notice number 27 asked the Sindh minister for local government as to why the distribution of water in Sukkur was not fair and proper. He also sharply criticised the performance of the North Sindh Urban Services Corporation (NSUSC) and said that it had destroyed Sukkur and other cities of north Sindh. He said the NSUSC had become a source of nuances for citizens as it was not resolving their civic issues.
Minister for Local Government Jam Khan Shoro and Senior Finance Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah ducked the call attention notice of Chawla, saying the NSUSC did not pertain to their departments as it was an independent entity.
However, the Sindh chief minister said that a project of Rs 90 crore was being carried out to resolve the water shortage in Sukkur. It may be noted that in the past the shoddy performance of the NSUSC had been debated many times in Sindh Assembly and even many ruling party’s MPAs had bitterly criticised its corruption and inefficiency.