The Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry SCCI has expressed concern over the increasing number of illegal allotments in labour colonies inside industrial estates, and called for proper action against people who were indulging in such unlawful activity. SCCI President Afan Aziz raised the issue when Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Labour Sher Azam Wazir visited the chamber on Saturday.
SCCI Vice-Presidents Ziaul Haq Sarhadi and Abid Salam, executive members, Secretary Labour and Manpower Aizazur Rehman, DG ISSI Anwar Khan and Director-General Rescue 1122 Dr Shamsul Haq also attended the meeting.
Aziz said that illegal allotments should be stopped. Most of industrial estates, he said, were facing an acute shortage of medical staff and facilities, especially in the Gadoon Industrial Estate. He urged the Labour Department to take proactive steps for amicable resolution of the problems.
Stressing the need for greater interaction between the chamber and Labour Department officials, the SCCI chief said that it was vital for addressing issues confronting industrial workers.
Minister for Labour Sher Azam Khan Wazir assured that the government would take stern action against people involved in illegally allotting flats and quarters in the labour colonies. He proposed the formation of a three-member committee to conduct a door-to-door survey to determine details of unauthorised allotments. The provincial minister said that the government was taking every possible step for welfare of labour class, particularly industrial workers.
The government, he informed participants of the meeting, had established a huge number of dispensaries and medical centres for the people, adding that it had also raised the dowry grant to Rs200,000 over the past four years. Participants of the meeting accused some school heads of declining to give admission to children of registered workers. The minister assured them that the government would take action against such principals.
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