Minors wade through city’s garbage on SSWMB payroll
Government reminded of Sindh child protection law, minimum wage
KARACHI:
The Sindh Child Protection Authority may have been established in 2011, but provincial government bodies are still employing minors as janitors and garbage pickers to sweep the streets and lift solid waste in the city.
This is claimed by social activists, who have written to the Sindh chief minister, provincial minister for human rights, local government minister, the National Commission on Status of Children chairperson and the Sindh Child Protection Authority. The letter, penned by Helpline Trust, pointed out that minors are being cruelly exploited by local contractors working under the Sindh Solid Waste Management Board (SSWMB).
‘Everyone wants to rule over Karachi but not fix its problems’
Karachi
April 28, 2021
An opposition legislator complained in the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday that everybody is determined to rule over Karachi but nobody is serious about fixing the problems of the provincial capital.
Participating in the pre-budget discussion in the House, Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan lawmaker Mangla Sharma said Karachi has been reduced to ruins owing to the indifference of the rulers. She lamented the situation that work on the Safe City project in Karachi has been pending for the past six years.
Grand Democratic Alliance MPA Nusrat Sehar Abbasi claimed that the provincial government is ineligible, incompetent and corrupt. She also claimed that corruption has become so rampant in Sindh’s governance that corrupt practices are taking place in every department of the provincial government. She said Sindh has been ruined because, according to her, certain corrupt mafias have been backing th
KARACHI: An opposition legislator complained in the Sindh Assembly on Tuesday that everybody is determined to rule over Karachi but nobody is serious about fixing the problems of the provincial.
Sindh Assembly amends law to establish special courts for child protection
Karachi
April 24, 2021
The Sindh Assembly on Friday passed into law the Sindh Child Protection Authority (Amendment) Law 2021, paving the way for setting up special courts for child protection in each district of the province.
The Section 20-D of the newly passed amendment bill titled ‘Establishment of Special Courts’ reads: “For the purpose of speedy justice, government shall, in consultation with the High Court of Sindh, by notification, specify for each district, an existing court of Civil Judge/Assistant Sessions Judge to be a Special Court for Child Protection to try the offences under this (Sindh Child Protection Authority) Act.”
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