Senate Standing Committee on Interior Friday set up a five-member sub-committee to probe the alleged irregularities and nepotism in the Capital Development Authority (CDA).
The committee also expressed its concern over the fake computerised national identity cards and directed the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to explain and directed them to present a report, said Senator Mehmood Talha Mehmood, Chairman of the Committee at a press conference here.
The sub-committee comprises Senator Mehmood Talha Mehmood, Senator Gulshan Saeed, Senator Tahira Latif, Senator Hamidullah Khan Afridi and Senator Rehmatullah Kakar, who will probe all the issues and present a report to the committee. He said during the two-day meeting, the committee expressed its concern over the unsatisfactory answers of CDA authorities asked about the alleged irregularities and mismanagement in its different departments.
He informed that the committee specially took note of the allotment of three agro-farms in Chak Shahzad to three real brothers-Azhar Alam Siddiqui, Anwar Alam Siddiqui and Akhter Alam Siddiqui thus asking the authority to explain that on what grounds the plots were allotted to them as well as allotment of other agro-plots.
Besides, the committee also took note of recruitment of over 1500 employees made in the CDA during the last two months, he said adding that the members also asked about the criteria under which the authority made the recruitments.
The committee directed the CDA to expedite the work on constructions of roads, underpasses and development of residential sectors to provide early relief to the people, he said. It also expressed dissatisfaction over the poor quality of work on Shahrah-e-Jamhoriat, a project on which CDA has spent over Rs 40 million.
It was also observed that there are many directors in the CDA who are holding more than one directorates and on the other side, some of the directors are without holding any particular directorate.
The same situation also prevails in the CDA hospital where too irrelevant officers have been posted in different departments without following the set criteria and their expertise, he observed.
He informed that the committee also voiced concern about prevailing of fake housing societies in the city, plundering billion of rupees of the innocent people without giving them plots, he added. But, he said, there was no reply by the CDA officials about all these concerns raised by the members.
About Nadra, the Senator said that committee also expressed concerns over the availability of the fake computerised cards despite the fact that the imported paper sheet which is used for the purpose is not available normally in the market. He added that there was no satisfactory answer from the Nadra officials. He said that the committee also advised the authority to train its over 2000 staff, who were working in the old registration offices to absorb them in other Nadra offices.
The committee expressed anger over the unsatisfactory legal action against an Assistant Manager in Nadra Nayyer Babar for his alleged involvement in corruption, he added.
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