Sanitary workers call off agitation plan

Rawalpindi: Sanitary workers have called off their agitation plan after DCO Saqib Zafar gave them assurance of service protection in a meeting held here on Tuesday.

Municipal Workers League (CBA) president Haji Muhammad Farooq, senior vice president Malik Muhammad Shafiq and general secretary Younas Masih met the DCO in his office. District Officer, Solid Waste, Dr. Mazhar Azeem was also present in the meeting.

The agitation was announced on the privatisation of sanitary sector to a private company on the order of the Punjab government. The office-bearers of Municipal Workers League expressed their reservation on privatisation of sanitary work in Rawalpindi by a company that their services would be at stake and they would be jobless after privatisation.

The DCO assured them that their services would remain under the city district government as the solid waste department would remain intact even after privatisation.

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