The government claims that ''Monetization of Transport Policy for Civil Servants in grade 20 to grade 22'' has saved the government up to Rs 1.5 billion during the current financial year. The government said that its decision to enforce the policy from January 1, 2012 has resulted in reducing the expenditure on purchase and maintenance of staff cars due to complete ban on purchase of new vehicles.
According to the policy, the civil servants in grade 20-22 who were provided the official staff cars were given the option to purchase the allocated cars of 1000-1300 cc on depreciated price to be fixed by a Committee in each Ministry/Division including a representative of Finance Division as per prescribed formula.
The recovery instalments of the price of the vehicles have been so fixed, not less than Rs 25,000 per month and in such a way that the entire cost is recovered from the officers before their superannuation or they can pay lump sum price of the vehicle.
The Cabinet and the Finance Divisions are regularly monitoring the implementation of the Policy and each Ministry, Division and Department has been asked to prepare and submit to the Finance Division every month a report on the expenditure relating to the CNG, POL consumption and the repair, maintenance of the operational duty vehicles to keep a strict watch on maintenance expenditure of such vehicles.
Due to success of the policy in curtailing the maintenance expenditure of the vehicles, there is also demand from autonomous bodies and corporations to adopt the facility. Government is considering extension in the policy regarding provision of car Magnetisation allowance to other entitled officers/ranks of various categories
The vehicles rendered surplus due to enforcement of the policy are being surrendered to the Cabinet Division with a certificate by the Principal Accounting Officer that the Ministry/Division/Department is not in possession of any vehicle in excess of its revised authorised strength.
For the purpose of overall implementation of the Policy, all Federal Secretaries/ Principal Accounting Officers were made responsible, to particularly ensure that each of the entitled officers in BS-20 to BS-22 including him/herself is not in possession or in use of any project vehicle or the departmental operational/ general duty vehicle, as well as, any vehicle of an organisation or body corporate in his ex-officio capacity, except the only vehicle allocated to him/her through this Magnetisation Policy.
PAOs have been directed by the Cabinet Division to check misuse of operational/ general duty vehicles. All PAOs have categorically been conveyed that any officer found misusing the official operational or any vehicle of project or body corporate in his/her ex-officio capacity shall be proceeded against under disciplinary action.
In addition, National Assembly''s Public Account Committee (PAC) also gave all the ministries and government departments warning to submit details of all the vehicles to PAC Secretariat and no project vehicle is allowed to be used by any ministry, division and department. The PAC has also directed Auditor General of Pakistan to make audit objection against those who violates the rules.
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