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Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has approved 20 percent special pay for federal secretariat employees, an unprecedented step in the middle of a fiscal year. This increase in salary is over and above the 15 percent civil servant pay rise across-the-board announced in the budget 2012-13 on June 6, 2012.

According to a statement released by the Ministry of Finance, the Prime Minister, on the special recommendation of the Finance Minister, approved a 20 percent special pay for federal secretariat employees. The total employees of the federal secretariat are around 20,000 to 22,000 and 20 percent increase in their pay may have an estimated impact of Rs 2 billion on the budget. The salary rise would be implemented from March 1, 2013 and advisor to Ministry of Finance Rana Asad Amin has reportedly been tasked to work out an accurate financial impact of the decision. Senior officials of Finance Ministry privately admit that the decision of new Finance Ministry would further fuel the budget deficit and the government borrowing would rise which, in turn, would impact on inflation.

The minister stated that during last five years, the government increased salaries of federal government employees by more than 100 percent. To further improve the living standard of federal government employees, the government is trying its level best to increase salaries of federal government employees, the minister added. The Finance Ministry on Monday also agreed to provide Rs 9 billion to the Higher Education Commission (HEC) for project development and current expenditure.

The decision to this effect was taken by Finance Minister Saleem Mandviwalla during a meeting with Chairman HEC Javed Leghari who called on the Minister to apprise him about the financial constraints facing the HEC.

Mandviwalla agreed to provide Rs 3 billion to the HEC for development expenditure and Rs 6 billion for running expenditures as well as salaries and pension of the employees. The minister also assured the HEC Chairman of full support for promotion and strengthening of higher education in the country.


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Officials stage protest over regularisation of services

KARACHI, March 16: Several civil servants on Tuesday criticised a recently passed law regarding regularisation of services and what they described as ‘out-of-turn’ promotions of various officials on a political basis.

They sought repeal of the law and withdrawal of the steps immediately, warning the government that they would continue to observe an hour-long pen-down strike on a daily basis till acceptance of their demands.

Responding to Dawn queries, a protesting official Shireen Narejo, who is an additional secretary in the Sindh health department, said that the government had inducted / promoted around 15 to 20 such officials over the past couple of weeks owing to which promotions of around 1,000 officials would be affected.

She said that the affected officials were already protesting against such inductions and promotions. Now a law had been passed giving protection to the steps the government had taken while permanently affecting the careers of around 1,000 officers.

She said the protesting officers also met the chief secretary and informed him of their concerns. She said that unless all those promoted / absorbed officers were reverted the officers would continue their pen-down protest for an hour on a daily basis.

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Govt set to appoint 284 non-cadre officers in OMG

ISLAMABAD: The government has approved a contentious policy to induct 284 non-cadre officers on cadre positions in the Office Management Group (OMG), sending a wave of resentment among career officers who joined the civil service through competitive process.
According to official sources, a summary in this regard was approved on March 18, two days after the dissolution of the National Assembly to accommodate the loyalists working on deputation as section officers in various departments in the Federal Secretariat.
The move has created unrest among 275 regular officers of the OMG group, who believe their rights have been violated through the politically-motivated policy just weeks ahead of the elections.
These officers have threatened to challenge the controversial policy in the Supreme Court if an official notification to this effect was issued. According to sources, the 284 beneficiaries, including ex-cadre officers, teachers, veterinary doctors, and officials from autonomous bodies, will be given acting charge as section officers in the Federal Secretariat and subsequently inducted on a regular basis in the OMG.
“This is against merit and justice. We have joined the civil service through the CSS and now we are being made to work under political appointees who never appeared in competitive exams,” said a civil servant requesting anonymity.
He said many regular officers would be deprived of their right to promotion if the ex-cadre officers were appointed as their seniors.
According to documents, the original summary was forwarded by former federal minister Syed Khursheed Shah, who was also the chairman of the Cabinet sub-committee on Regularisation of the Contract Employees, on February 27, 2013. The minister had proposed to regularise officers from only smaller provinces but the Establishment Division objected to the proposal, terming it discriminatory. A fresh draft was prepared and 166 officers from the Punjab were also included among the beneficiaries.
According to the Civil Servants Act 1973, officers in the OMG can only be appointed through competitive exams (two-thirds of the total) or promotional exams (one-thirds of the total). However, through an amendment in 1985, 10 percent quota was allocated for appointment by transfer/induction.
But the appointment of 284 in one go, as approved by the government, will violate the 10 percent quota rule as there are 750 duty posts in OMG and only 75 can be filled through appointment by transfer under this rule.
The government has cited an acute shortage of civil servants as the reason for this relaxation of rules. However, OMG officers are of the view that the shortage can be overcome through induction via CSS exams and promotional exams.
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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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Mr. Aftab Sultan (a BPS 22) PSP officer has been notified as new chief of Punjab Police. Other expected nominees for the coveted position of Punjab Inspector General of Police were Javed Iqbal, Sarmad Saeed Khan, Mushtaq Sukhera, Kalbe Abbas, Khan Baig, Nasir Durrani and Mubarik Athar. Punjab is the largest province and its police force is largest force (around 200,000) after Pakistan Army and it has sources of largest police funds.

Mr. Aftab Sultan is a refined civil servant and is having versatile police and allied experience. He was recently serving as Commandant National Police Academy. Prior to that he had served as DG IB and Additional IG Finance & Welfare Punjab and DIG at various stations. He belongs to 4th Common of Civil Service and at this time senior most PSP officer next to Mr. Javed Iqbal, current Secretary Narcotics Division. Mr. Aftab Sultan will retire in April, 2014.

He is considered as a man of utmost integrity and competence. He was inquiry officer in Bank of Punjab scam and had reported for frauds of billions of ruppees. He also inquired into frauds in medicines of dengue in Punjab province. During 2002 President Musharraf Referendum, he was DIG Sargodha and had requested the then IG Punjab to transfer him because he did not want to be part of any hoax referendum, he was readily transferred out/side lined. During his short tenure as DG IB, he worked for the uplifting of civilian spy agency and promoted culture of merit.

Appointment of Aftab Sultan, an officer of impeccable character, integrity and professional calibre, is considered to be a good omen for the Punjab Police as well as law and order situation of the biggest province of the country. God always bless him, amin.


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13 officers ignored in posting of joint chief economist

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ISLAMABAD: The government has posted Rizwan Bashir, an influential DMG officer of grade 20, as joint chief economist in the Planning and Development Division by ignoring 13 officers of the economists group in the same grade, it is learnt.
“Now the career of ten officers of the Planning Commission is directly at stake because Rizwan Bashir, a grade 20 officer, will not be able to sign ACRs (Annual Confidential Reports) of the same grade officers of economists group for promotions in grade 21,” official sources confirmed to The News here on Monday.
According to office order number 5 (53) Admn-VI/PD/13 dated March 22, 2013, a copy of which is available with The News, Rizwan Bashir Khan, joint secretary has been posted as Joint Secretary/Director General (Infrastructure), Projects Wing, Planning & Development Division with immediate effect and until further orders. He will also look after the work of the post of Joint Chief Economist (Operations) until the posting of a regular incumbent.”
The economists group is considered as rudderless ship in which top guns only protected their petty vested interests instead of promoting career planning for young economists mostly grade 17 and 18.
Currently, there is one post for grade 22 in the economists group, which is falling vacant, three posts in grade 21 of which 2 are vacant and four posts are vacant in grade 20.
In the last meeting of the selection board for promoting officers, the group failed to get any promotion mainly because the former chief economist Jaffer Qamar remained untraceable so he could not sign the officers’ ACRs for three months. Some officers of the group such as Samiullah, Dr Alibad Khan and others could not be promoted from grade 20 to 21 in last board meeting.
The rules are devised in such a way that excluded certain officers from getting promotion and DMG became the major beneficiary to which even the secretariat group raised objections.
The economists group has been ignored to such an extent that the government has appointed a police officer of Azad Jammu and Kashmir as DG Pakistan Planning Management Institute (PPMI).
Mr Rizwan Bashir was also victim of rules devised for getting promotion from grade 20 to 21 in the last selection board meeting because he had attended the mandatory training course, which was not made part of career under the newly devised rules so his promotion was deferred.
When contacted Secretary Planning and Development Division, Hasan Nawaz Tarar on Monday said they have made a stopgap arrangement by giving additional charge of joint chief economist to Rizwan Bashir as basically he was posted as DG Infrastructure Project Wing of Planning Division. “It is a temporary arrangement,” he added. Rizwan Bashir possessed the relevant experience as he has worked with the Asian Development Bank before assuming charge to look after external finance in Finance Ministry, he concluded.

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Civil service officers are selected through the competitive examination held annually. Interestingly enough, the officers selected are bestowed with sober responsibilities and are listed to hold the highest offices of the country to run the machinery at a smoother pace. No doubt, Pakistan always needs such young men and women, with qualities of both head and heart, in holding the offices. To select only such balanced individuals is indeed the sole purpose of the civil services examination.

More importantly, before the individuals are selected as civil service officers, they make a lot of promises to their people to purely work for the benefit and welfare of the country. But sadly enough, as soon as they are appointed to be CSPs, they at once fall in a cobweb even losing their worth in knowing the people around them.

Ironically, they forget that the real worth lies in knowing the humanity and working for them. Hope these CSPs will realise their prime duties after they are appointed.

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RECENTLY, the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC), that is responsible for conducting the Central Superior Services (CSS) exam which candidates have to clear to qualify for the civil services of Pakistan, found itself caught in a scandal.

Some CSS aspirants from Faisalabad had bribed the postal staff to make changes to the answer sheets of the exam as they were being couriered to the FPSC head office.

The aspirants involved could not be identified but thankfully the scheme was foiled. But even if their plan had worked they would have achieved at best a government job in BPS 17, which pays so little that I am sure the amount they paid in the bribe would not be covered for the next five years at least.

All in all, these individuals need to learn from the flawless plan of the lot mentioned in the following paragraphs.

Among his last official activities, the former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf approved a summary pertaining to the induction of 284 people from corporations, autonomous bodies and provincial departments to the Office Management Group (OMG) of the Federal Civil Service, a group meant to be filled primarily by candidates who are selected by the FPSC via the CSS exam.

This direct induction means that the appointees will bypass all exams and recruitment procedures, land permanent jobs in the federal government and make a mockery out of merit.

The summary for their induction was moved on March 16, 2013 and approved on March 18, 2013. What prompted such quick action was the fact that the beneficiaries were apparently handpicked for being close to the political class which seems to have taken Otto von Bismarck’s words, “politics is the art of the possible”, a bit too literally.

Out of these 284 people, 130 would be inducted in BPS 18, a level which someone selected on merit after passing the CSS exam with flying colours achieves after at least five years of service. This means that these 130 persons would always stay ahead of those inducted on merit — seniority is the most important criterion for promotion to the next grade.

The move was attributed to the shortage of 200 odd section officers in the Federal Secretariat owing to two periods of decade-long gaps in recruitment to the OMG via the CSS exam. This shortage would have been plugged to some extent when 41 officers selected on merit by the FPSC and currently under training joined the ranks.

The remaining 160 positions could easily have been filled in two years at the most by selecting candidates on merit through the CSS exam. The heavens would not have fallen if regular recruitments were made in this time period for the sake of upholding merit.

However, if the shortage of officers demands that positions be filled with immediate effect, the rules allow officers from other service groups of CSS cadre like the railways, commerce and trade, postal services, etc to be posted on deputation thus ensuring meritocracy.

Compromising on merit for plugging shortages is a mindless move. But we suppose that for the politicians, compromising on merit for the sake of securing votes or favouring cronies is very wise.

So much so that the tale of the tortoise and the hare is currently playing itself out between two class fellows. One of them passed the CSS exam, the other failed it thrice — the maximum number of times a candidate can take the exam. The one who passed is still serving in BPS 17 and the one who failed is now waiting to be inducted in BPS 18 in the same group.

Moral of the story: one should never lose hope in politicians.

Now that the political government has completed its term will all these wrongs be undone? I believe the answer is in the negative. We have seen enough of such anomalies being brushed under the carpet.

One can drive around flouting the law in non-custom-paid luxury vehicles for years while those with respect for the law spend their hard-earned money on cars that are not even safe, let alone luxurious. Then one fine morning an amnesty scheme is announced endorsing the actions of those who broke the law.

Accountability laws appear to come with a cutoff date and those who embezzle public money before that date are allowed to walk away unquestioned — so the earlier you start the better.

This example applies to these irregular inductions to the civil service; even if the next government expels the usurpers from service by which time they have already accrued considerable advances. The government after that restores them with all the perks and wages paid in arrears.

Evidence suggests the man behind this move was a former minister for religious affairs.

The bottom line is that the rule of law and respect for the law are a distant dream in a system where the unlawful becomes lawful in a matter of minutes.

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