Karachi The Sindh government has formally requested the federation to devolve the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) to the provinces. Sindh has 43 percent share in the EOBI funds presently under managed by the Centre.
Sindh Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Sikandar Mandhro told the assembly on Tuesday that on the request of the Sindh government, the devolution of EOBI funds to the provinces had been made a part of the agenda of the last meeting of the Council of Common Interests (CCI) but the issue could, unfortunately, not be taken up.
The Sindh government, he said, has been trying its best to get control of all the national institutions whose administration should have been devolved to the provinces from the federal government under the 18th amendment.
Mandhro said several issues were pending between the federal and provincial governments regarding the devolution of powers in health and education sectors. The federal government, he added, has been continuing with the functioning of Higher Education Commission, while similar higher education bodies had to be established by the provincial governments.
Dr Mandhro further said the provincial government was devising a strategy to take stern action against the illegal occupants of labour colonies of the Sindh Workers’ Welfare Board. Around 3,900 flats had been allotted to industrial workers in Gulshan-e-Maymar and Northern Bypass areas and temporary shelter was provided to the flood-affected people there, but they were not willing to vacate these flats now.
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