The FGEHF has allotted 23,000 plots and flats to employees, and still has around 20,000 candidates on the waiting list. PHOTO: FILE
The Public Accounts Committee recommended on Tuesday that the government abolish the special quota for allotment of plots to public servants, except for the disabled, widows and families of martyrs.
This was put forth via a report submitted by PAC Chairman Nadeem Afzal Gondal during National Assembly proceedings.
According to the report, there are several hundred Grade-22 public officials, including government officers, military personnel, judges and police heads, who have been given more than two plots a piece. The report was placed before the lower house so that appropriate land allocation measures may be implemented.
“Provision of plots of land by the executive to the independent and impartial sections, like judges and journalists, could lead to allegations of partiality or bias,” said the report. “Therefore, there should be no special quota for the allotment of plots, expect for the disabled, widows and families of martyrs.”
The PAC gave 17 recommendations, among which it said that priority allotments to the executive committee of the Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation (FGEHF) be withdrawn. Since its establishment in 1989, the FGEHF has allotted 23,000 plots and flats to employees, and still has around 20,000 candidates on the waiting list. The report further suggested that “the policy of allotment of a second plot under the honourable prime minister’s special package for BS-22 officers be discontinued for the future, as it [is] discriminatory.”
It also called for the cancellation of the transfer of plots from one sector to another, allotted under the premier’s assistance package or under the age-wise seniority scheme.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 6th, 2013.
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