Akhunzada Fazle Haq Mardan
Marble Mines and Industries Development Association (MMIDA) has announced a nationwide shutter-down strike from February 1 against fuel price adjustment and other taxes. The strike will leave more than one million workers unemployed across the province. MIDA provincial chairman Muhammad Sajjad Khan along with industry association president Afzal Shah Khattak, Nihad Ali, Sikandar Bacha, Bakhtiar Khan, Noor Muhammad, Haji Midrarullah and others said in a press conference at Mardan Press Club on Monday.
We are announcing an indefinite shutter down strike and factory shutdown across the province from February 1 against fuel price adjustment, quarterly tariff adjustment, extra tax and double GST. He said that electricity in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is generated from hydel ie water.
But unfortunately the poor people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are charged for producing electricity from oil. Which is a cruel move. Mohammad Sajjad Khan said that in 2012, the Peshawar High Court had also ruled against the recovery of fuel price adjustment. But the government is still receiving FPA. Against which we will soon file a writ in the Supreme Court through the legal team. He said that receiving FPA from the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was a total injustice and a violation of 18th amendment.
The provincial government should recommend to the federal government that the FPA surcharge on electricity bills be abolished immediately. He said that marble industries were already in decline due to innumerable problems and taxes. Now with the fuel price adjustment, the marble industry is on the verge of further collapse.
