Sindh Cabinet approved Sindh home based workers rules and prohibition of employment of children rules: Saeed Ghani.

KARACHI -- Sindh Minister for Information, Archives and Labor Saeed Ghani has said that the Sindh Cabinet approved Home Based Workers' Rules, 2019, under which the home based workers would be registered. According to the rules a ten-member Provincial Council would be constituted to work on the mapping of the home-based workers, the provincial minister said. He said this while briefing the journalists after the provincial cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Cabinet meeting was presided over by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and attended by all the provincial ministers, advisors, Sindh chief secretary and other relevant officers. Saeed Ghani said that the Sindh Cabinet after deliberations also approved Sindh Prohibition of Employment of Children's Rules, 2018.

Saeed Ghani said that the Sindh Cabinet also approved the amendment to the Motor Vehicle Ordinance, 1965. Provincial Minister for Information said that the cabinet was told that the amendments in these rules had been done so as to make the installation of trackers in the motorcycles mandatory. He said that after amendment in Motor Vehicle Ordinance 1965, a tracker had to be installed in every new motorcycle in future. It had been left to the owner of an old motoecycle whether to install a tracker in it or not. Saeed Ghani said that the cabinet observed that the law should be same for all, and that all motorcycle users should install a tracker. The cabinet also set up a committee under Minister Transport, which would include Minister Excise and Minister Local Government, to review the proposed amendments and submit their recommendations, the provincial information minister said.

Furthermore, Saeed Ghani said that the cabinet also approved the establishment of Urban and Regional Master Planning Authority under Local Government Department. The Cabinet was told that the Supreme Court of Pakistan had also instructed to establish this authority. Provincial Minister for Information told that Minister for Local Government Syed Nasir Hussain Shah and Secretary Local Government briefed the Cabinet in detail, in this regard. The cabinet was also told that this Authority would be authorized to prepare master plans for all the cities of the province. Saeed Ghani informed that the cabinet also approved the the Constitution and Regulation of Sindh Councils Unified Grades (Services) Rules 2019. He said that the Cabinet was informed that unified grades included the cadres of Administration, Medical...