KARACHI: Karachi Customs Employees Association has come up with a Charter of Demands, consisting of 12-points for the lower staffers of Pakistan Customs-FBR.
General Secretary of Karachi Customs Employees Association, Syed Aftab Hussain Shah Hamdani has put forward the demands before the high-ups of Pakistan Customs and FBR authorities.
The charter consists of 12 demands for betterment and facilitation of the lower Grade Customs officials including sepoys, clerks, laboratory assistants, drivers and others.
The demands included promotion of driver staff from Grade 5 to Grade 7 and promotion of senior drivers from Grade 7 to Grade 9; promotion of the educated Class-fourth employees, experienced clerks, sepoys and RS Laboratory attendants to the post of Lower Divisional Clerk (LDC); to allow the educated and experienced clerks, havaldars and sepoys to participate in the departmental exams of PO-EO; To redress the issues of getting service books and payroll slips after the retirement of the employees by SR Cell Section; to ensure transparent distribution of reward money on the time of annual budget and to pay the reward money equal to 2-time basic salary of each employee; to increase the house-hiring fund of the lower grade employees deployed in MCC Appraisement, MCC-Port Muhammad Bin Qasim, MCC PaCCs and MCC Export; to increase the allocated medical fund for the families of on-job, retired and deceased employees; to make efforts, in order to rectify the record of GP Fund Box Number in AGPR record; to restore the increment and washing allowance of the sepoys’ uniform; to bring back the Customs Welfare Shop in Custom House again and give it a status of utility store; to announce son-quota for the retired employees of Pakistan Customs in the department.