Karachi:
An employee who gives the first years of their lives to an organization hopes to harvest the fruit of their professional commitment in retiring through the payment of monthly pensions and a Klump-SUM Privacy Fund. Such also hope from thousands of retirees from Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) whose dependent remains deprived of their rightful money.
In a speech on condition of anonymity, the widow revealed after a retired KMC employee that her husband had been withdrawn in 2017 and had died two years ago. “Although I receive a monthly pension, it is still pending gratuity worth being 5 million.
According to sources of the Express Pakinomist, KMC has a total of 24,000 pensioners, from which more than 13,000 retired employees have been deprived of their legal rights, including leave, Privacy Fund and Tip Since the last eight years, with their total quota reaching RS13 .5 billion. In addition, KMC has stopped accepting cases of retirement employees in the city from 2023 onwards and even depriving them of their monthly pensions.
According to DR year’s salary in return for all their unused paid magazines until retirement.
“Many retired employees are dead and their family pensioners, including their widows and children, await these taxes. Likewise, other retired employees need the money for medical treatment, housing, business or other family obligations such as their children’s weddings. However, because of the Failure to pay these taxes face pensioners and their families against financial difficulties.
“Some time ago, Sindh High Court had approved a Bailout package under which the Sindh government had to pay RS4.2 billion to KMC in the form of retirees’ quota and grants. However, the provincial government had also increased the pension by 15 percent in the 2019 budget and 10 percent in the 2020 budget, however, this increase is not received by the KMC pensioners until date, “he added.
On the other hand, Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah, President of the Sajjan Union of KMC, stated that the pension system for local bodies was centralized and managed by KMC since the beginning. “The federal and provincial governments were instructed to pay Octroi Zilla Tax (OZT) on time, so there would be no delay in crediting wages and pensions to employees. Although there is an approximate number of RS1.3 billion available for payment Of pensions in different ways delays occur due to the increasing number of retirees, “Opined Shah.
In a comment on the case, the spokesman for KMC claimed that people who got their jobs in 1988 now all retired after reaching 60 years, and their numbers rose by hundreds. “This has suddenly worsened the pressure on KMC, which is currently facing a serious financial crisis. However, everything is done to pay their taxes on the special instructions from the mayor of Karachi, Murtaza Wahab,” the spokesman said.
