Pakistan Unions argue for cheaper electricity, not privatization

The Government should take urgent national measures to develop cheaper source of elecy. and overcome the menace of Elecy. Load Shedding and high cost of elecy. charges in the country by developing Hydel Power Station alike Tarbela and Mangla developing National Elecy. Rs. 170 and Coal Fired Lakhra Elecy. Power Station generating Elecy. 6 per unit in comparison of high cost of Private Thermal Power Station while the private generator Power Station had been charging the elecy. Rs. 20 to Rs. 30 per unit making impossible for common man to pay the high cost of generation of Oil Elecy. Generation. 

The Government should appoint professional Chief Executive Officer of distribution companies on permanent basis and hand over the complete control of DISCOs to either WAPDA or PEPCO instead of Private Members of Board of Director becoming owner of distribution companies without any investment. It would help to raise efficiency and overcome elecy high cost and not to privatize the distribution companies since it would be against the public interest and would give rise inter provincial disputes. 

The Government save the workers from the tragic fatal accident occurring every day on account of raising the elecy. distribution net work in the Companies every day while the existing staff on account of ban on recruitment of new hands for years had been doubling their quantum of work resulting their tragic deaths and ensure safe working conditions to the Line Staff to save them from tragic accident. It was also demanded to raise the up-gradation of the pay scale of the remaining staff including Class IV, Grid & Meter Readers, Drivers, Clerical and others staff etc. 

These demands were raised in a national meeting of "ALL PAKISTAN WAPDA HYDRO ELECTRIC WORKERS UNION" C.B.A. held on 16^th October, 2014 at Bakhtiar Labour Hall, Lahore participated by hundred of Trade Union representatives from all the Four Provinces including Baluchistan, Sind, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtookhawa and was addressed by Veteran Trade Union Leader Mr. Khurshid Ahmed General Secretary alongwith Abdul Latif Nizamani President, Haji Muhammad Ramzan Achakzai Joint President and Gohar Taj Chairman alongwith Javed Baloch (Islamabad), Iqbal Dar (Gujranwala), Ch. Ghulam Rasul (Multan), Haji Abdul Haye (Balochistan), Rana Ghulam Jaffar (Faisalabad), Iqbal Qaim Khan (Hyderabad), Mustajab Khan (Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa) other representatives of the Union. 

They house in a resolution demanded to the Government to introduce far reaching reforms in the economic and Social Societies of the nation by introduction far reforms in the Society by elimination Feudalism and Crony Capital System & irrational gap between the rich and poor and get recovered U.$ 200 Billion deposit by the Capitalists and Feudal Lords and Politicians and representatives in Swiss Bank and raise the efficiency of national elecy. organization instead of the Privatization and introduce far reaching reforms in the country overcoming mass poverty and ignorance and corruption and lawlessness and ignorance and irrational gap between the rich and poor and take urgent measure to help the victims of Floods and I.D.B.P in Khybder Pakhtoonkhawa.

The house also urged WAPDA Authority and PEPCO and Distribution Companies to allow one month pay honoraria to their employees as allowed to N.T.D.C., GEPCO, FESCO and IESCO elecy. Companies prior to Eidul Fitter. 

The meeting was also addressed by Badar-ul-Munir Murtaza Member (Power), Yousuf Naseem Khokhar Managing Director (Admn.) WAPDA appreciated their role of elecy. Development and assuring them every support for their welfare.

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