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Later, the police resorted to baton charge which led to a physical fight between
them. The police also used teargas to disperse the protesters.
The arrested persons were shifted to Kohsar and Secretariat police stations.
HYDERABAD: The labour union of the Oil & Gas Development Company
Limited (OGDCL) has warned the workers will go on a strike for an
indefinite period if the company fails to fulfil their demands and reinstate
around 1,200 of their colleagues who were unfairly sacked in 1993.
They said that if the protest had any impact on production or it led to an untoward
situation, its responsibility would rest with the government.
The president of the Sindh chapter of OGDCL Mazdoor Union, Noor Khan Narejo,
general secretary Mohammad Ashraf, senior deputy general secretary Mehboob Ali
and others said at a press conference at the press club here on Saturday evening
that the 1200 work-charged and contractual employees were laid off in 1993 over
political grounds but later the company officers made this anti-labour policy
permanent.
They accused the officers of appointing their favourites and acquaintances to the
posts which fell vacant after the mass sacking of employees. A notification was
issued in 2009 by the president Asif Ali Zardari, which said all the employees sacked
during 1993 and 1996 must be reinstated but the OGDCL administration obstinately
refused to take back the laid-off workers, they said.
They said that if the sacked workers were not reinstated and their demands were
not met within a month, they would be forced to go on a strike for an indefinite
period. They would not resume duties till the demands were fulfilled, they warned.
They appealed to the government to immediately implement the unions charter of
demands and urged the federal government and ministry of petroleum and natural
resources to address workers grievances.
They called for the establishment of the OGDCL Hyderabad southern zonal office to
address issues of workers and landlords and demanded construction of a medical
centre to provide health facilities to employees and their families.
They regretted that OGDCL had also failed to pay compensation to the landowners.
They claimed that district government had deposited Rs1 billion for installation of
Sales Meter Station at Nari Panos, but the SNGPL was delaying the project for
unknown reasons.
They also condemned the more than 20 hours loadshedding in the district due to
which people were facing lot of problems. They resolved to continue their protest
until acceptance of their demands.
ANTI-ENCROACHMENT DRIVE DEMANDED: The traders of Karak city have
demanded of the government to direct the district government to remove the
encroachments on the lone road leading to the old bazaar.
The traders, including Altaf Khattak, Iqbal Khan, Haq Nawaz and others, informed a
meeting on Friday that the road leading from the main road to the old bazaar had
been practically occupied by the traders and small time vendors and the residents
faced hardships while moving to the city through the old bazaar.
They claimed that they had brought the issue into the notice of the tehsil municipal
administration to remove the encroachments, but to no avail.
Published in Dawn, September 3rd, 2016
The petitioner has made the Federation of Pakistan, Ministry of Petroleum and
Natural Resources, and the managing director and general manager sales of OGDCL
and JJVL respondents.
Shinwari, through his counsel Adil Majeed Khan, told the court that OGDC intends to
undertake installation of an LPG recovery plant, compressor installation and allied
facilities at Nashpa Oil Field, Karak by using the process fee method instead of
engineering, production, construction and commission (EPCC) method.
EPCC is prevalent and has been implemented very successfully in Pakistan and
abroad, while also being the most efficient and far more economical than the
process fee or rental plant methods, he said.
The respondents, however, in order to fill their own pockets are desperately inclined
towards plundering the natural resources of the country for their own good at the
expense of public welfare, the petitioner claims.
Through the process fee method, JJVL will not only receive rent or profit share during
the period of contract, but would also get to uninstall the plant after expiration of
the contract or have the right to sell it to OGDCL, he said, explaining that this would
translate into OGDCL paying rent for its own plant.
Referring to JJVLs chequered history, the petitioner said that the company was
involved in the LPG scam, where the Supreme Court cancelled an LPG extraction
contract and directed authorities to recover Rs22 billion from it.
It shows gross criminal negligence and corrupt practices on the part of respondents
in advancing undue and illegal favours to JJVL, stated the petitioner.
Conversely, the petitioner claims that the EPCC method would increase annual net
profits by approximately Rs124 billion.
The petitioner requested the court to declare the tender awarded to JJVL as null and
void and direct the respondents to proceed with the LPG extraction project on EPCC
basis.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 2 nd, 2015.