Degree verification: Civic agency issues final warning to officers

ISLAMABAD:

A senior officer of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) has requested the general public to return, if found, his educational credentials he lost recently. He made this request through an advertisement in newspapers.

The move apparently comes in the wake of a decision taken by the civic agency to issue a final warning to over 800 of its officers in grade 17 and above to submit their educational credentials for verification.

“Any officer, who will remain fail to submit degrees within next 15-day will be considered without required academic qualification and stern action will be taken against him under the prevailing service rules,” said a press release quoting Amer Ahmed Ali, member administration, who presided over a meeting held at the CDA headquarters on Tuesday to discuss the degree verification issue.

Despite several reminders only almost 27 percent of the officers responded appropriately.  Majority of the officers seems reluctant to submit their educational credentials with the authority for verification.

The meeting was informed that only 300 out of 1,100 officers in grade 17 and above had so far submitted their degrees with a three-man committee headed by the CDA director general administration.

The committee is mandated to get verified degrees of the CDA officers from the Higher Education Commission or their respective educational boards.

Ahmed directed the head of the committee to issue final warning to the officers.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 19^th, 2015.