WAPDA/ Electricity workers urged
PEPCO / Electricity management to take immediate measures to ensure safe working
conditions to the line staff since unsafe working condition had caused their three
tragic accident in FESCO Faisalabad in the last week due to electrocution while
performing of their official duties, Mola Bux, Fitter-ll, Bilal, & Ikram Ullah, Assistant Linemen and
also demanded to the Prime Minister of Pakistan that electricity being basic need
of the people, therefore, he should intervene and not allow the sale of
National Public Utilities to the capitalists rather get improved with transparent management for
raising its productivity in the wider public interest. By another resolution, the house
expressed a great concern over price hike of essential commodities and items of
daily use including vegetables and urged the government to bring-to task the
profiteers and hoarders and black marketers to book and decrease the prices of
petrol and diesel since those had already been decreased in the international market. It also asked the
government to imposed taxes upon the federal lords and capitalists and parliamentarians
and adopt National Economic Self-Reliance rather mortgaging to the IMF The
meeting was addressed by veteran trade union leader Mr Khurshid Ahmad alongwith M/s.
Osama Tariq, Syed Zakir Ali Shah,Rane Abdul Shakoor,Rana
Muhammad Akram, Sajid Kazmi, Ch.Muhammad Younis Kambooh, Ch Maqsood Ahmad, Malik Zubair and
other representative of All Pakistan WAPDA Hydro Electric Workers Union (CBA).
(Sh.Muhammad Nawaz)
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