Govt to provide maximum facilites to labourers

KARACHI: The government is striving to give maximum facilities to the labourers in Sindh and to ensure the implementation of labour laws in all industries. Provincial Minister for Labour, Transport and Industries Adil Siddiqui stated this while talking to newsmen at his office on Wednesday.

He informed that the government had launched various projects for the welfare and betterment of the labourers. "We are taking every possible step to ensure that every employer must pay minimum wages of Rs2500 to a worker", he added.

Adil Siddiqui disclosed that he had constituted a special vigilance team, comprising senior government officials, to visit different industries for checking the working conditions and implementation of government directives regarding the wages.

He said that a medical college would be set up in the metropolis under the auspicious of the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (SESSI) soon which would have Valika Hospital as its teaching hospital. "Fifty per cent of the seats of the medical college would be allocated to children of labourers but purely on merit basis and SESSI would bear their all expanses", he maintained.

The minister said that the government had finalised the proposal of the medical college and the groundbreaking ceremony would be held prior to June 30 this year. He informed that some 3,500 minibuses were plying on the roads without any route permit. He reiterated that a drive would be launched soon and the government would take stern action against the
violators. He said that he had called a meeting of all transporters on May 3 to discuss various issues.