Chairman Fishermen’s Cooperative Society Abdul Berr while addressing the distribution ceremony of computerized membership cards among fishermen at Karachi Fish Harbour has said that he was very happy to provide computerized membership among real fishermen. He said, “I did as much welfare as I could during my chairmanship. But sadly, that welfare did not reach the real fishermen.” The FCS chief said that if the fishermen had chosen their real leaders earlier, the welfare would have reached them by now. When the representative director of the fishermen is not the real fisherman, how will the welfare reach the real fishermen. Abdul Berr said that we have given powers to the fishing parties to find the real fishermen. You should stop the way of fake fishermen by subscribing to your real fishermen. The parties which did not have membership. Welfare will not be available to them. He said that during the scrutiny of membership, 2,500 fake members have been removed. The process of scrutiny is still going on. Some directors are also among the members who have been proved to be fake. One director has not even submitted the account of lakhs of rupees taken for welfare. So what can a real fisherman expect from such directors? The FCS chief said that during the process of scrutiny of membership and transparency of membership, Director Asif Bhatti and Abdul Rauf Ibrahim have been of great help to me for which I am grateful to them. For the first time in the history of India, after the completion of computerized membership process, all the fishermen with membership will be provided insurance facility including family. And fishermen with membership cards will be provided with free medical treatment family from any hospital of the city. The Chairman said that after the completion of transparent elections, the society will be handed over to the real leadership of fishermen. Fishermen will never forget the tenure of Chairman Abdul Berr. At the end of the ceremony, Chairman Abdul Bar along with Director Asif Bhatti and Abdul Rauf Ibrahim distributed computerized membership cards among the fishermen.
