Karachi - Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani has said that Sindh is the first province in the country to issue Benazir Mazdoor Card for labourers.
“The Benazir Bhutto Mazdoor Card will actually have the status of ATM Card, Health Card and Education Card of the workers, in the first phase of which this card will be issued to 630,000 workers across the province,” the minister said.
He expressed these views while addressing a function organised in his honour under the North Karachi Association of Trade and Industry.
Ghani said that in the second and third stages, this card will be available to every worker who works in a factory, industry or drives a rickshaw, taxi, road digger.
He said that after the 18th Constitutional amendment, the department of Labour is a purely provincial matter but the federation did not want to give the shares and assets to the provinces. “That is why they (federal government) illegally and unconstitutionally seized the EOBI and Workers Welfare Funds,” he added.
Earlier during the Sindh Assembly sittting on 13th January, Ghani said that as per existing laws, only industrial workers were entitled for the relief by department but now they were bringing amendments to enable all labourers to get the card. He said that the procedures would be 100 percent transparent as the card to be equipped with a chip.