Crackdown: Lower cadre staff of CDA’s land directorate transferred

Five officials suspended for failing to report to degree verification cell

ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has transferred all lower cadre staff from its land directorate after receiving complaints of irregularities and corruption.

In notifications issued late on Friday, Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) Mayor and CDA chairman Sheikh Anser Aziz ordered the transfers as part of a second round of reforms in the administration wing of the authority.

Following the directives, as many as 153 staffers deputed in the land directorate were transferred, including 18 senior assistants, 41 sub-assistants, 53 lower division clerks, four data entry operators, one clerk and 36 Naib Qasids.  They have been replaced with well-reputed officials deployed at different departments of the authority.

After assuming the additional charge of CDA chairman, Mayor Aziz had taken a serious notice of irregularities in the land and rehabilitation directorate. A few weeks ago, in the first phase of reforms, he had transferred all senior officers in the department and sealed land records directing a probe into alleged corruption of the officers.

Apart from the wholesale transfers, the Mayor has directed the suspension of five officials of different formations of the authority after their failed to comply with orders asking them to verify their degrees.

These officials had been directed to report to the degree verification cell, however, these officials had ignored consecutive reminders to comply with the order. As a result, the chairman suspended them.

Among those suspended are two senior assistants, one data entry operator, one lower division clerk and one security guard. Mayor Aziz said that indiscipline and negligence will not be tolerated. He directed CDA’s administration wing to ensure appointments on merit in the authority and depute competent and efficient workers.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 9^th, 2016.