-The corporation has an overcrowded political appointment
KARACHI: While bearing the financial burden of more than 1,000 employees who had been appointed by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in the past, the Sindh government has decided to abolish the cash-strapped Sindh Small Industries Corporation (SSIC) to lower the burden on the provincial kitty, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah has also reportedly given the go-ahead to work on the plan to close down the SSIC aimed at lowering the financial burden on the provincial government which bears more than Rs400 million annual to pay salaries to the staff of the corporation.
According to sources, the corporation’s actual strength was 100 however more than 1,000 inducted on political grounds by the MQM. The corporation has been feeding at least 52 clerks, 25 peons and as many as 18 watchmen in its head office located at Regal Chowk, Saddar.
The actual sanctioned strength of the corporation is around 100 however the coalition partner of the government has made continued appointments in it that has reached at 1,000.
Resultantly, the corporation’s saving, deposited in different bank accounts have finished and the provincial government gives bailout package for the salaries to the staff.
The politically-appointed workers have never attended their respective offices and still drawing salaries. The SSIC is facing a shortage of funds and its employees paid salaries late. Its financial crisis is set to worsen in the coming days due to the extra burden of politically-appointed employees.
The sources disclosed that there are at least 52 clerks who were working in the corporation’s head office.
The clerks include Haseeb, Kamran, Naveed, Ali Hyder Brohi, Sami Zafar, Khuram Aijaz, Muhammad Khalid, Irshad Ali Bugti, Ali, Khalid Ahmed Shaikh, Rafiq Ahmed, Shabir Ahmed Brohi, Muhammad Akbar, Muhammad Fahad Saeed, Shazia, Syed Riazuddin Asim, Amir Hussain, Muneer Khan, Muhammad Zubair, Amir Ali, Mutlib Shah, Asim Mir, Kashif Basit Mirza, Muhammad Kashif Changezi, Muhammad Sohail, Asad Jafri, Muhammad Ishtiaq Hussain, Nyara Tabsum, Awaisul Haq Siddiqui, Muhammad Hanif, Farhan Rasheed, Muhammad Ramzan Bohio, Rizwan Ahmed Memon, Syed Faisal Hussain, Ms Uzma Ansari, Amber Usman, Zeeshan Hassan Hashmi, Muhammad Khalid, Nusrat Khatoon, Kamran Noor Khan, Aftab, Noorul Din, Shah Nawaz, Kamran, Zeeshan Sabir, Mohammad Danish, Mohammad Tahir, Mushtaq Ali, Riaz Ahmed, Zeeshan Hyder, Mohammad Imran, Syed Sheraz Ali, Sher Mohammad, Ayyaz Gul, Ghulam Ali, Umer Farooq and Mohammad Amjad.
The peons include Khalid Mallah, Tarachand, Muhammad Ismail, Mumtaz Khan, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Adnan Nisar, Muhammad Amir Khan, Amnullah, Shahbaz Ali, Muhammad Yaqoob, Muhammad Adnan, Muhammad Akram, Asif Ahmed Qureshi, Muhammad Sultan, Sujauddin, Atar Iqbal, Zakir Hussain, Shah Nawaz, Abdul Awais Azeem, Azam, Zaheer Ahmed, Sahib Khan, Abdul Hameed and Mohammad Adnan.
The chowkidars include Shahnawaz son of Ghulam Mohammad, Abdul Hameed, Mohammad Achar, Akbar Ali, Abdul Shakur, Ali Bux Bugti, Atta Mohammad, Shahnawaz son of Mohammad Nizamuddin, Muhammad Ishaq, Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Danish, Muhammad Amir Ahsan, Imran Nagori, Farhan Khan, Muhammad Mohsin Khan, Iftikhar Khan Sherwani, Ghulam Mustafa and Rizwan Majeed.
