KWSC pays Rs1.645bn to employees in various heads from July 2023 to Feb 2024

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Karachi Water and Sewerage Corporation (KWSC) Engineer Syed Sallahuddin Ahmed made payments of Rs1.6455 billion to employees in various heads from July 2023 to February 2024.

According to the KWSC spokesperson, these payments are the highest payments made in one year in the history of the water corporation. A press statement said the amount of payments made by the CEO of the KWSC to the employees in one year since assuming office is unprecedented in the history of the KWSC.

The CEO said in his message on the first day after assuming office that solving the legitimate problems of the serving and retired employees of the corporation is among his top priorities, and in this regard, effective measures will be taken for the welfare of the employees at different times.

The statement said that after the CEO assumed his position, the KWSC has become a department that pays its employees’ salaries and pensions to its retired employees on the first date of the month. Steps are being taken for the timely payment of leave encashment received by the employees in the month of Ramazan this year, and the leave encashment will be paid in full to all officers and employees in the second Ashra of Ramazan.

DMD Finance KWSC Syed Iftikhar Ali Shah said the CEO had taken effective measures by taking a personal interest in solving employee problems.

He said that for the first time in the history of the KWSC, the payment of the gross salary to serving employees had been ensured, He said that effective measures had been taken to preserve the deduction of funds from the salaries of the employees so that those funds could be paid to the employees on time whenever they needed.