HYDERABAD: Resolutions passed at a seminar demanded Rs10,000 minimum wage for workers and Rs5,000 pension under the Employees Olg-age Benefit Institution (EOBI).

The demands were made at a pre-budget seminar organised by Hyderabad chapter of the National Labour Federation (NLF) here on Monday to formulate suggestions for the federal budget-2010.

Resolutions also demanded that the salaries of government servants should be increased in accordance with the recommendations of the Pay and Pension Commission.

Other resolutions demanded decrease in the prices of utilities and essential items like flour, sugar, ghee, pulses and vegetables.

It was also demanded that the “looted” wealth which had been deposited in foreign banks should be brought back and those involved in corruption should be tried in open court.

One of the resolutions demanded that the capitalist and feudal systems should be abolished, ban should be imposed on the residential plots of more than 400 yards, commercialisation in education should be stopped and the standard of education in government schools should be improved.

It said that simple living style should be made the culture of the country and it should start from the president, prime minister and ministers.

Speaking on the occasion, NLF president of Sindh chapter Rana Mehmood Ali Khan, Ghulam Mohammad Qureshi, Shakeel Ahmed Shaikh and Siraj Gaddi said that it was due to the wrong economic policies of the government, corruption and luxuries of ministers that the people of Pakistan, particularly the working class and government servants, were facing hardships.
Source: Dawn
Date:5/18/2010