Capital Development Authority (CDA) will regularize 16 daily wages officers who had been inducted in shady manner. Sources in the CDA told Business Recorder that the authority's board is regularising the services of 16 officers appointed on daily wage basis in 2011-2012. These officers were appointed on posts, which were not advertised in the national press.
The CDA during that period inducted 28 officials. The authority on March 29, 2016 had already regularised 10 of them. According to the rules, the CDA was required to publish the vacant positions and then to fill them in a competitive process.
The sources said that the vacant positions were offered temporarily to do away the requirement of advertising the posts. The CDA board could hire services of any individual for a period of 89 days without publishing the position and relaxing the condition of interview and test etc of the candidates. These daily wages officers were appointed in BS-16, BS-17 and BS-18 for a period of three months and against certain projects. Since the cabinet committee headed by former federal minister labour and manpower Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah was dealing with the cases of contractual employees, the cases for the regularisation of the daily wages officers were referred to the committee.
The matter remains in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) where the CDA withdrew its case mysteriously, which enabled the daily wages officers to pressurise the administration to get them regularised, the sources claimed.
National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has started investigating as to how the case was withdrawn.
According to the NAB sources, since the daily wages officers were either son or daughters of senior CDA officials or political figures therefore the chairman CDA Maroof Afzal verbally ordered the law directorate to withdraw the CDA case.
The NAB is investigating that whether the CDA chairman under the rules was competent to pass such directions without obtaining the opinion from the law experts to withdraw the case.
It may be mentioned that last year CDA constituted a committee headed by the then member environment Syed Mustafain Kazmi to consider the cases of daily wages officers for regularisation. The sources said that the said committee suggested to CDA chairman Afzal Maroof that the matter might be referred to the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) and the temporary officers may be regularised in case they successfully qualify the FPSC exams.
However, the CDA authorities turned down the suggestions and regularised the first batch of the daily wages officers couple of months after the retirement of Kazmi, the sources said.
Those who have been regularised so far are assistant directors Sheikh Faizan and Sheikh Zeeshan, sons of CDA director general environment Dr Sheikh Suleman; assistant director Mohammad Aaqil Zardari, brother of CDA director Asghar Zardari; Kashif Anwar son of ex director CDA Anwar Gopang;. Assistant director Zulfiqar Ali Junejo, son-in-law of former CDA director Roshan Junejo; assistant director Malik Mohammad Qaseem, son of building inspector Malik Mohammad Ramzan and assistant director Aqeel Sandhu is nephew of CDA's deputy director Akram Jatt. The officers whose cases are being considered for regularisation are Tauqeer Khan, Seema Begum, Ali Murad, Beenish, Burhan Aamir, Sardar Raza, Saiqa Tariq, Ali Hassan and others.
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