The Mehran Workers Union of Hyderabad Development Authority (HDA) has demanded that the Sindh Government release funds to the authority so that the employees who had not been paid their salaries and pensions for the last 8 to 9 months could be paid. Muhammad Aslam Abbassi, the unions Secretary, in a statement issued here on Sunday, said the families of the workers were starving and that they were neither able to pay for the education of their children nor the medical treatment of their elders.
He maintained that at least 8 employees of HDA and its subsidiary Water and Sanitation Agency had died in abject poverty in the ongoing year. According to him, the 3 months salaries for the years 2018 and 2022 each had also not been paid to hundreds of work-charge staff. Abbassi urged the government to release the required funds keeping in view the plight of the employees of HDA and WASA who were responsible for the city’s development, water supply and drainage. The Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPPs) former MPA from Hyderabad Abdul Jabbar Khan in a separate statement echoed the same demand from the Sindh government.
