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30m workers deprived of EOBI benefits
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ISLAMABAD, April 24: About 30 million workers are not registered
with the Employees OldAge Benefit Institution (EOBI) and will
remain deprived of their rights under the schemestarted by the
government for the welfare of the labour class.
EOBI chairman Zaffar Iqbal Gondal told this reporter on Sunday
that only about 29 of the 59 millionlabourers working in different
government and private organisations were registered with the
EOBIand entitled to old-age benefits.
He said that dishonesty, corruption and apathy towards workers`
rights were the reasons behind thehuge shortfall in registration of
workers. But this also exposed the tall claims of the
governmentwhich announced a big package for workers but so far none
of the promises have been fulfilled.
On May Day last year, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani promised
that minimum wage for workers
would be Rs7,000 per month, and free facilities for healthcare
and technical education would beprovided to them.
Mr Gondal said that about two million workers were registered
during the last few years after he tookover charge of the
institution and a target of 10 million more to be brought into the
fold of EOBIpension scheme had been set.
But it could not be materialised because the government has set
June 30th as the deadline fordevolving the labour ministry and its
subsidiary EOBI to the provinces.
Mr Gondal said that workers of the smaller provinces of
Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa wouldsuffer the most due to the
devolution because thousands of labourers from these two provinces
wereworking in industrial cities like Karachi, Faisalabad and
Lahore and their EOBI shares would go to theprovinces where they
were employed, instead of the areas of their origin.
Apart from this, most of the industrial units in Balochistan and
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are sick or totallyclosed so their shares as
compared to Punjab and Sindh would be only a small fraction of
thetrillion-rupee EOBI fund.
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