HYDERABAD, March 11: A meeting of labour unions of powerhouses demanded on Sunday cancellation of decision to privatise Jamshoro powerhouse and restoration of workers’ allowances.

Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Central Labour Union Central President Abdul Latif Nizamani presided over the meeting attended by office-bearers of the administrative committee of all the labour unions of Pakistan’s powerhouses held at the labour hall.

The committee’s chairman, Mohammad Sajan Panhwar, demanded that the government should take back the decision and restore hard area allowance and generation allowance and appoint the children of employees on vacant posts.

He opposed leasing of Lakhra powerhouse and demanded that the problems of the workers of Guddu powerhouse should be solved. A convention of all the powerhouses workers would soon be convened at the Guddu power station, he said.

BUS TERMINAL: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has said that work on the construction of Rs300 million modern bus terminal and shopping mall will start within next few days.

The nazim said while presiding over a meeting about the project at the district nazim secretariat on Saturday that the shopping mal would have 240 shops. The district government was taking revolutionary steps to bring the metropolis at a par with other developed cities of the country, he said.

The bus terminal and shopping mall would also generate extra income for city taluka by tens of millions of rupees a month, he said and added that the district was constructing asphalt roads and flyovers to improve the traffic system on modern lines. The bus terminal would be built near the National Highway where the district planned to construct a trauma centre, he said.