Karachi:
An employee who gives the first years of his life to an organization expects to reap the fruit of their professional commitment by retiring through the disbursement of monthly pensions and a global sum forecast fund. They were also the hopes of thousands of retirees from the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC), whose dependents are still deprived of their legitimate money.
Speaking under anonymity, the widow of a KMC retired employee revealed that her husband had retired in 2017 and had died two years ago. “Although I am receiving a monthly pension, the payment of gratitude worth RS5 million is still pending,” said the widow, who simultaneously appealed to the principal minister of Sindh and the mayor of Karachi to immediately clear the fees of all pensioners for humanitarian reasons.
According to the sources of the Express PAkGazette, KMC has a total of 24,000 pensioners, of which more than 13,000 retired employees have been deprived of their legal rights, including the license shipment, the forecast fund and the tip since the last eight years, with its combined quotas that reach RS13. .5 billion. In addition, KMC has stopped accepting cases of retired employees in the city since 2023 onwards, even depriving their monthly pensions.
According to Dr. Saeed Akhtar, coordinator of the BMC -retired employee action committee, the tip and forecasting funds were the monetary contributions that employees used to assign their salaries during their employment period, while sending licenses was An amount paid to a retired employee equal to a salary of the year in exchange for all its paid sheets not used until retirement.
“Many retired employees have died and their family pensioners, including their widows and children, are waiting for these quotas. Similarly, other retired employees need money for medical care, housing, businesses or other family obligations such as their children’s weddings. For the impetition of these quotas, pensioners and their families face financial difficulties.
“Some time ago, the SENDH Superior Court had approved a rescue package under which the Sindh government had to pay RS4.2 billion KMC in the form of quotas and subsidies of pensioners. The provincial government had also increased the Pension in 15 percent, however, in the 2019 budget and 10 percent in the 2020 budget, KMC pensioners have not received this increase to date, “he added.
On the other hand, Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah, president of the KMC Sajjan Union reported that the pension system of the local organisms was centralized and was administered by the KMC from the beginning. “Federal and provincial governments were ordered to pay the Octroi Zilla (OZT) tax in time so that there is no delay in the accreditation of wages and pensions to employees. Although an approximate total of RS1.3 billion is available for the Payment of pensions through various means, delays are being carried out due to the growing number of pensioners, “said Shah.
When commenting on the matter, the KMC spokesman said that the people who obtained their work in 1988 now retired after reaching the age of 60 years and their number increased in hundreds. “This suddenly has aggravated the pressure on the KMC, which currently faces a severe financial crisis. However, everything can be done to pay its quotas with the special instructions of the mayor of Karachi, Murtaza Wahab,” said the spokesman.
