CDA suspends 36 employees for unmerited promotions

Those affected requested former chairman for a new inquiry into the matter

ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has suspended 36 of its employees in the wake of an FIR registered by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) against them on the charges of unmerited up-gradations, re-designation and illegal changing of cadres.

The affected employees, through Collective Bargaining Agent (CBA) union, had requested former CDA chairman Sheikh Anser Aziz for a new inquiry against what they viewed as a targeted, biased, prejudice and highly objectionable investigation.



Earlier, CDA had served show-cause notices to its 42 employees who were promoted out-of-turn, upgraded and whose cadres were changed illegally since 2007. The scam of out-of-turn promotions and up-gradations was being investigated simultaneously at three different forums including Supreme Court of Pakistan, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the authority itself.

The Supreme Court had taken suo moto notice on a media report wherein it was said that various CDA officials were promoted out-of-turn between 2007 and 2012 during the tenures of two former CDA chairmen, Farkhand Iqbal and Imtiaz Inayat Elahi. However, the matter is still pending before the apex court.



In August 2016, then CDA Human Resources Department (HRD) Director Ayub Tariq had issued a circular in which all concerned were notified, “The case of up-gradation re-designation based on completion of length of service defined in the general notification circular on the subject notified by the HRD directorate dated February 2010 and June 2010 are placed held in suspension till the final verdict of the Supreme Court in the suomoto case of 2014 regarding illegal promotion, personal up-gradations, re-designation of officials of CDA.”

Among the suspended employees DG Khalil Ahmed Sumroo, DG Najma Azhar, Director Admin Safdar Ali Shah and Additional Director Amaadudin. 

Published in The Express Tribune, June 8^th, 2018.