Pakistan : Wasa workers end protest
HYDERABAD, Sep 9: The Hyderabad Development Authority Employees Union (CBA) on Sep 8 ended a week-long strike that had disrupted water supply to consumers across the city and crippled the sewerage
system causing unhygienic situation in many localities.
CBA general secretary Abdul Qayyum Bhatti, speaking to Dawn, claimed that the strike was ended after Deputy Commissioner Motasim Abbasi and Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) at a meeting with CBA leaders at the DC House held out the assurance that sacked work-charge/contractual workers of the HDA and Wasa would be reinstated as per the institutions’ requirement whereas one out of three pending salaries would be disbursed to workers before Eidul Azha and the remaining ones after the Eid.
He expressed the hope that most of the 1,800 laid off workers would be reinstated.
Meanwhile, a press release issued by HDA Director General Qazi Shahid Pervez, who is also Hyderabad Commissioner, endorsed Mr Bhatti’s claim.
Published by Daily Dawn on Sep 9, 2016
