Children of serving women suffering badly.
CHITRAL: Small kids of working women are badly suffering during duty hours of those women who are on jobs. These children missing them badly although some mothers have hired srervants to look after their children but even than these children feeling separation of their mothers for a few hours in a day. But feeding to these children is an other problem as we can ,t feed them in office in presence of male staff she added. There are so many such small children (newly born) under the age of 6 months whose mother is serving in different government, semi government or non government organizations. Usually their mother goes to offices at day time but these children are suffering by their separation. As there is no child care center for such babies in Chitral to look after and feed them in case of going to offices of their mothers. Hence serving women demanded for establishment of baby (child) care centers at Chitral to look after their children at day time when they goes out of their houses.
MMAP demanded for basic rights.
Mutahida Mahaz Asatiza Pakistan (United Movement of Teachers of Pakistan) delegations under supervision of M.Ashraf Khan Chief Organizer, Jameelud Din, ‘Ubaidullah, Sardar Muhammad and Mir Musa Khan meet Provincial Minister Saleem Khan and demanded for some civic facilities and provision of their basic rights. They demanded for increasing of fire wood allowance which is admissible since 1969 as price of one mound fire wood was 4.50 rupees at that time but now its price increased to rupees 200.0 per mound but teachers drawing the same allowance as previous. They demanded for increasing the allowance or they may be provided 166 mound fire woods to each employee. Unattractive Area Allowance was not enhanced despite increasing other allowances. MMAP demanded for fixing one year of tenure for serving at a non local station. The teachers union also complained that Education department deducting a huge amount from their salaries in head of Education Foundation Fund but this fund is not utilizing for benefit of Chitral teachers. They also complaints of no payment of scholarships to children of teachers who reading in different educational institutions. As the department deducting Benevolent Fund from their salaries but only 2 children are giving stipend awards even in case of if more than 2 children are reading. They complained that this fund was not released for the last 3 years to their children. They also demanded for early release of scholarship which is pending since December, 2007.
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