Employees back KP engineers demands

PESHAWAR: The employees of Communication and Works (C&W) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday staged a protest in support of the protesting public sector engineers and asked the government to accept their demands. The activists of the PWD Labour Union gathered in front of the Peshawar Press Club to express solidarity with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Association of Government Engineers. They were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans in favour of the protesting public sector engineers.

President of the union Malik Nisar Khan, general secretary Abdul Salam and others were leading the protesters. The public sector engineers have launched a pen-down strike for acceptance of their demands for the past nine days. They presented four demands including up gradation, professional allowance, to abolition the quota in grade-17 engineering jobs for Bachelor of Technology (B-Tech) and diploma holders and allow the public sector engineers limited private practice.

The speakers said that the pen-down strike of the public sector engineers was affecting the working of the low grade employees of the C&W Department. They said the demands of the engineers, chief engineers and XENs and ACs were genuine and asked the government to accept the same before the protest develop into crises.