KARACHI: Over 10,000 Hindu workers and retired employees of Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) and other district municipal corporations remained unpaid despite the passage of their annual religious festival Holi, report published in an English daily said.
Employees and retired workers of the minority community were assured by the management that they will be awarded advance salaries and pensions, but the promise remained unfulfilled.
The report found that there are around 10,000 Hindu workers and pensioners associated with the civic agencies — Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, and district municipal corporations — and their total salaries are around Rs125 million and pensions are around Rs95m.
It is not the first time that the workers/pensioners had not received their salaries/pensions in time for their festivals, as in the past also they celebrated their festivals without being paid in time, a source told.
Responding to concerns, KMC spokesperson Ali Hassan Sajid said that the civic agency had not yet received funds from the Sindh government so the payments could not be made to the workers.
