Strike Continues: NADRA workers demand regular jobs
The strikers told APP that there were around 16,000 employees, of whom 14,500 were purely on contracts.
February 22, 2012
ISLAMABAD:
Around 14,500 employees of National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra), working on a contractual basis continued their strikes in different parts of the country on Tuesday. Employees are demanding the Authority to regularise their service. A spokesman for the agency termed the strike as ‘illegal’, saying that Interior Minister Rehman Malik and Chairman of Nadra had already issued letters to regularise the rules. He said Nadra was facing other problems, including registration of Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs), Watan Cards and Pakistan Cards for flood-affected people. He commented that the process of regularization was started in light of federal government’s decision, which needed approval from the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Finance and Establishment Division. “If we regularise services of all contract employees, we need to have additional billions of rupees per,” he mentioned. When contacted, the strikers told APP that there were around 16,000 employees, of whom 14,500 were purely on contracts.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 22nd, 2012.
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