Sindh govt to meet Sehwan Development Authority employees’ demands

By Our Correspondent
March 07, 2025
A representational image showing a protest. — AFP/File
A representational image showing a protest. — AFP/File

The director general of the Sehwan Development Authority (SDA), Ali Gul Sanjrani, has said the problems being faced by the SDA employees will be resolved at the earliest.

He said the concerned SDA employees should also strive to improve the working of the authority. The SDA DG stated this while talking to media persons on Wednesday night after he met the protesting staffers of the authority camping outside the Karachi Press Club to observe a hunger strike. Sanjrani rushed to the KPC to meet the protesting staffers of the authority on the directives of Sindh Local Government Minister Saeed Ghani. He was accompanied by Coordinator to the Local Government Minister Muhammad Khan Abro.

The SDA DG and Abro offered juices and cake to the protesting staffers of the authority to end their hunger strike. He told media persons that the three major demands of the protesting employees of the authority would soon be met. These demands include payment of the pending salaries of the employees for the past nine months, setting up the general provident fund for the staffers, and eliminating ghost employees from the authority.

He informed journalists that Ghani would soon meet the Sindh chief minister to get approval for the release of a Rs 300 million grant to pay pending salaries to the SDA staffers. The local government minister's coordinator said that efforts were underway to help the SDA achieve the stage of economic self-reliance. He expressed his pleasure at the fact that after his assurance, the protesting SDA staffers ended their hunger strike, which had been continuing for the past three days.

The secretary of the SDA staffers' union, Ghulam Shabbir, told media persons that the authority's DG and coordinator to the local government minister had assured them that the government would soon meet their demands. He said the protesting staffers of the SDA had decided to end their hunger strike after these assurances. He hoped that the Sindh government would keep its promise.