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Old Tuesday, March 26, 2013
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Supreme Court approached against inductions in OMG
March 26, 2013 MUSHTAQ GHUMMAN

Office Management Group (OMG) has approached the Supreme Court against the decision of the former PPP-led government to induct those on deputation in different grades.

The aggrieved officers of OMG- a CSS cadre - argue that they are recruited through CSS examination; and have brought to the notice of Apex Court that the former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf approved a summary on March 18, wherein, a policy decision was taken to modify rules for induction in OMG thereby allowing for 284 officers working on deputation in federal secretariat, to merge into OMG cadre. 129 of these officers are in grade 18, one in 19 and 154 in grade 17.

According to the petitioners, absorption of those on deputation to federal secretariat consists of people who have connections. Official documents which are annexed with the petition provide evidence that the summary was initiated on the wishes of Khursheed Shah the then Minister for Religious Affairs. To adjust those on deputation, the induction of OMG through CSS was stopped twice, despite shortage of officers in federal secretariat.

One of the aggrieved officers told Business Recorder that the direct induction in OMG was suspended without any justification in 1979 for ten years, adversely affecting the human resource situation in the Federal Secretariat - the nerve centre of the Federal Government.

It restarted in 1989 and was again suspended in 2001 for ten years; and restarted again in the recent past. The petitioners argue that both these suspensions were mala fide and were meant to weaken the two Groups namely OMG and SG. The petition further points out that only OMG is being made a victim of such whimsical decisions. If those on deputation were to be adjusted they should have been merged in all CSS cadres. This is discrimination which is due to biased decisions of secretary establishment who has always been from District management group and acts to the detriment of OMG.

OMG Group has sought intervention of SC on the following grounds;(i) the decision will minimise the Group's promotion prospects;(ii) it is against civil servant act 1973; (iii) it will promote favouritism;(iv) it will destroy a CSS cadre which is responsible for policy making in federal secretariat; (v) it is against Election Commission of Pakistan's direction; and (vi) it is against Supreme Court of Pakistan's direction and is politically motivated.

The names of Officers of OMG are Shafqat Abbas, Mansoor Ali Masood, Asghar Ali Khan, Amjad Hafeez, Waqas Ahmad Barlas, Affaf Faiz Rasool Malik, Saima Bibi, Hafiz Ubaidullah Zakria, Rushna Zahid, Shazia Mushtaq, Ishfaq Ahmad Hiraj, Zakirah Akram, Sohail Babar, Qaiser Farooq, Aurang Zaib, Faisal Idrees, Nisar Azamat Chatta, Muhammad Shahzad, Khurra, Shehzad Warraich, Syed Irfan Hussain Shah, Malik Ishfaq Khan, Shah Jehan, Rana Yasir Arfat, Mazhar Hayat, Jahanzeb Ptafi, Dr Mansoor Ali Waseem and Nazish Amjad.


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