Minister of State for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Faisal Karim Kundi on Wednesday arrived at the protest sit-in of the employees of Water and Sanitation Services Company (WSSC) and assured them that he would take their issue before the au-thorities concerned.
The state minister listened to the problems from the leaders of protesting employees who were demon-strating sit in protest against the non-payment of their salaries for the last five months. He expressed his serious concern about the problems of WSSC employees not being resolved. Speaking on the occasion, the state minister said that he would con-vey the case of WSSC employees to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor and provincial government.
He said that the WSSC employees would be helped in all possible ways beyond their political affilia-tions, adding, all the relevant authorities including KP Governor, CM, Provincial Minister for local government would be approached to resolve the issues of WSSC employees. He mentioned that the Tehsil Municipal Authority (TMA) was a profitable institution when it was working in a four-room of-fice.
Kundi said the matter should be investigated that why this institution was facing from financial crisis and not paying salaries to its employees as there were number of commercial shops and plazas owned by this institution, adding, the strict indis-criminate action should be taken against the respon-sible whether it was a politician or officer of the department. He said it were politicians who used TMA and Gomal University for recruitments of Class-IV for political gains and today as a result both the institutions were facing financial crisis and unable to pay the pensions and salaries to their employees.
