Chief Minister Sindh Murad Ali Shah said Wednesday while chairing a cabinet session that paying employees less than minimum wage, Rs 25,000 according to Sindh’s 2021-22 budget, will be dealt with consequences.
The poor are getting poorer in the rising inflation today and even the middle-income class people are barely surviving, said CM Sindh Murad Ali Shah as he directed the relevant offices to make sure the minimum wage rule is applied.
He said the news of people selling off their kids or poisoning them to death is also emerging. The essential daily commodities are getting more and more expensive, the CM Sindh said.
Now there will be an action against the organizations paying their employees less than Rs 25,000 in Sindh, the province chief warned during the cabinet session he held yesterday.
Separately in the same cabinet session, CM Shah has approved the proposal of easing the recruitment policy for the teachers.
The test was recently conducted by the Sukkur IBA Testing Service in partnership with the provincial government.
The meeting was told that only 11,549 candidates passed the test for primary school teachers (PSTs) against the total seats of 32,510 in the province.
Similarly, 14,000 candidates appeared in the test for the junior elementary school teachers (JESTs) for the total seats of 14.039. Sadly only 1,385 candidates were declared successful.
“For the purpose we are setting up a forum at the labour and industries departments to ensure proper implementation of government decisions in the public as well as private sector,” he said while addressing a press conference just after presiding over a cabinet meeting at the CM House.
He was accompanied by Minister Labour Saeed Ghani, Minister Education Sardar Shah and Minister Industries Ikramullah Dharejo.
Shah said that the cabinet unanimously has expressed serious reservations against defective, immature, and unrealistic policies which have ended up in a record price hike in which even white-collar people are unable to afford square meals for their families.
“This is quite a painful situation,” he said and added this was why the cabinet decided to task the Labour and Industries departments to implement payment of minimum wage of Rs 25,000 in all government organizations and in the private sector.
Atta Prices: To a question, Murad Ali Shah said that the federal government had failed to stop wheat smuggling last year and has also failed this year, as a result atta prices have increased considerably.
He added that in Sindh Rs 77 per kg atta was available but where atta prices of Rs 55 per kg were being claimed by the federal ministers were not fit for even cattle consumption.
He said that the policy of the federal government was peculiar in the sense that it passes the buck of its all failures to its previous governments but as a matter of fact it has failed completely.
Malir Expressway: The chief minister, replying to a question regarding Malir expressway said that its alignment was changed a bit to save some old villages but with the change of alignment cost of the project has increased.
The change in alignment was not acceptable to some of the stakeholders, therefore his government has decided to take all the stakeholders on board. He added that this was the reason that the project has been delayed.
