Board of Directors (BoDs) of Utility Stores Corporation (USC) is all set to conduct interviews to fill the lucrative post of Managing Director on October 19-20, which is vacant since long due to confrontation between the Board and Ministry of Industries and Production. USC is being run by the acting Managing Director, Sultan Mehmood, with the blessings of Ministry and Prime Minister who is the final authority for granting an extension.
According to criteria, new Managing Director is to be charismatic, enthusiastic, determined, resilient and driven by success, dynamic leader with high degree of integrity, well-developed communication skills, with a ' can do' approach strong time management and decision-making skills and a team player providing constructive interpersonal relationship - requirements that allow for considerable discretion on the part of the selectors, so stated a senior official on condition of anonymity.
The candidates are: (i) Brigadier Hasan Jalil Shah(retired);(ii) Miss Sumaira Shahzad;(iii) Salman Ahmad;(iv) Salman Admed;(v) Shamel Siraj: (vi) Waqar Yasir;(vii) Masood Alam Niazi;(viii) Ejaz Ahmed minhas;(ix) Naveed Anwar Khan ;(xi) Major( Hamayun Haseeb(retired) ; and( Rizwan Ahmad Bhatti.
Well informed sources told Business Recorder that the Ministry of Industries and Production had prepared a summary for the Prime Minister to appoint Rizwan Ahmad Bhatti but Chairman BoD did not favour the proposal after which the summary was scrapped.
According to an official, Bhatti's name is included in the summary sent to Prime Minister for appointment of CEO National Productivity Organisation (NPO) another subsidiary of Ministry of Industries and Production. Mr Bhatti has served as Managing Director/ CEO Railway Estate Development & Marketing Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary company of Government of Pakistan. Secretary Industries and Production, Arif Azim has also been Secretary Railways.
Chairman USC Board, Jamal Mustafa Siddiqui wrote a letter to the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister on June 16,2015 stating that the incumbent Secretary Ministry of Industries and Production is finding it difficult to accept change that has come in the shape of public sector companies (Corporate Governance), Rules, 2013. Following are the actions in support of this assertion: (i) a complete disregard of the Board in any communication from the Ministry; (ii) a categorical refusal to accept the Chairman and the Board as the agents of the government; (iii) ignoring timely and specific recommendation of the Board for filling the acting MD's position and sending recommendation to the Prime Minister's office for a person who is not qualified for that position as there are NAB inquiries pending against him and in an earlier assignment of this nature was not able to discharge the duties responsibly by bowing down to illegal orders of the then Secretary (promotion without board's recommendation of four General Managers to grade 22, a decision which has now been reversed with irreversible financial and loss of discipline to the organisation). Upon inquiry from the board he answered that he could not do anything as the orders were from the then Secretary who also was the Chairman.
Chairman further stated that the Board plans for early retirement of two persons ie Sultan Mehmood, the acting MD and Masood Alam Niazi currently the senior general manager, suggesting that inquiries should be conducted against them through NAB and FIA.
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