Lahore : Quaid-i-Azam had declared the electricity, railways, oil & gas and other national enterprises would run in the public sector.
The government should learn from the bitter and failed experience of privatization of KESC and not to privatize the national profitable electricity companies— FESCO (Faisalabad) IESCO (Islamabad), LESCO (Lahore), and GEPCO (Gujranwala)—in the wider public interest.
Trade union leader Khurshid Ahmed expressed these views while addressing an Eid Millan Party at Bakhtiar Labour Hall on Monday.
All Pakistan WAPDA Hydro Electric Workers Union organized the gathering.
“The government should introduce administrative reforms in electricity companies and raise their productivity instead of handing over all the powers to the private members of board of directors of companies having no investment of single rupee.
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At this occasion, Bashir Ahmed G.
M (Hydle) Wapda, Qasir Zaman CEO LESCO, Mujahid Islam Billa declared that holy month of Ramazan taught us to develop and ‘strengthen the noble qualities of character and serve the humanity and motherland and advised the workers to serve WAPDA and nation with devotion and better skill and productivity.
Speakers urged the workers to strengthen their independent labour movement based upon equality, fraternity and social justice and free from exploitation and assured the workers full support to their just struggle.
HRCP Secretary General I A Rehman declared that no society could achieve economic and social development without upholding the fundamental rights of workers and poor segments of the society.
