Employees of Peshawar Development Authority have voiced concern over the proposed PDA Bill 2017, which they termed against their interest. They demanded of the provincial government to address their reservations on the Bill before its proper enactment from the provincial assembly.
Speaking at a news conference at Press club on Friday, President of United PDA Workers Union, Ziaul Haq said that a Bill was presented in provincial assembly, which is completely against their interest, and created great unrest among the employees.
He said there was neither package nor any benefit for employees in the Bill. He said the legislation was only for Peshawar Development Authority. He demanded the development authorities should be included in the Bill. Flanked by the association office-bearers, Qamarul Wahab, Ishfaq Ahmad, Tahir Shah and others, Ziaul Haq informed that the proposed Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) Bill 2017 was presented last Wednesday in the provincial assembly in order to give legal and autonomous body status to PDA after its inception.
He furthermore said the PDA worked for 15 years without any legal standing, the incumbent KP government has realised the need to give it a legal status and make it an autonomous authority like that of the recently established Galiyat Development Authority, he added.
The K-P chief minister would be the chairman of the authority established under this act and the minister for local government would be its vice chairman, a member of the KP assembly nominated by the speaker would be its member, Peshawar Nazim would also be among the members. The president said a total of 8,000 employees of PDA, out of which a large number were working as daily-wage in it, as their future was on stake after the passage of the bill, he said. He demanded of the government to announce similar package for those employees appointed after 2001. He also sought increase allocated quota plot, school, Hajj and special person from 2 to 10 per cent.