Evaluation: NAB Lahore bureau scores 99%

Partly Quantified Grading System used for performance evaluation


Our Correspondent January 26, 2017
NAB Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry speaks to officials. PHOTO: ONLINE

LAHORE: NAB Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry visited the Lahore regional bureau to review its performance after an annual inspection was conducted by his inspection and monitoring team (CI&MT). The bureau scored an excellent 99.7% in its evaluation.

While giving an overview about NAB’s performance over the years, Chaudhry said it is committed to eradicating corruption across Pakistan. He stressed corruption is the root of all evils in society and it undermines the rule of law.

“Corruption impedes the early completion of development projects and causes huge losses to the national exchequer.

NAB operates under the National Accountability Ordinance 1999 which extends to the whole of Pakistan, including FATA and Gilgit-Baltistan. NAB has its headquarters stationed in Islamabad, while there are eight regional bureaus located at Karachi, Lahore, Pehsawar, Quetta, Sukkur, Multan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Rawalpindi.

The NAB Chairman’s Inspection & Monitoring Team (CI&MT) was deputed to conduct an annual inspection of the Lahore bureau for 2015.

The annual inspection was carried out on January 24-25, 2017 to review performance on the basis of a newly introduced Partly Quantified Grading System (PQGS).

CI&MT senior member and his team conducted the said inspection for 2015 and gave a detailed briefing to the chairman. The brief highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of NAB’s Lahore bureau. He further highlighted that the PQGS was devised in 2014.

Under it, the performance of all NAB’s regional bureaus is being evaluated since 2014 on standardised criteria.

The Lahore bureau’s performance was evaluated as outstanding/excellent with a 99.97 % operational efficiency index. It received 7,987 complaints and all were processed according to the law.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 26th, 2017.

COMMENTS (1)

Sameer | 7 years ago | Reply I used to work for an IT company. One day our boss yelled at us that our response time to troubleshoot IT tickets was below average...our solution: we set an automated reply script to all incoming problem tickets...on paper our response time immediately clocked 99%...but in reality solving daily IT problems was lazy business as usual. Automated replies would make us look efficient but no one realized that nothing was being done according to SLA. So NAB chairman can stop fooling around with automated replies...nothing gets done without greasing ones palms...and thats the Supreme court talking about NAB.
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