CDA objects to IHC recommendation
Educational qualifications for technical posts under the scanner.
The CDA informed that in most projects inquiries had already been ordered. PHOTO: FILE.
ISLAMABAD:
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Tuesday submitted to the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat a report containing the civic agency’s comments on the recommendations of an Islamabad High Court-appointed judicial commission on various projects.
The CDA informed that in most projects inquiries had already been ordered.
However, the civic agency expressed its reservations over a recommendation pertaining to its members being restricted to experts in their respective technical posts, hold relevant educational qualification against the technical posts including Member Finance, Member Engineering and Member Planning and Design in CDA.
In its reply, the CDA stated that its members’ positions were management level positions that required management and leadership as well as policy planning and development skills.
It added that members dealt with both technical and non-technical matters both at the policy and executive levels and for technical areas.
“It is accepted worldwide that experienced and senior personnel having multiple expertise with organisational management experience are placed at higher levels in organisations which are quite different in nature and function,” said the reply.
The CDA Finance Member Azhar Ali Chaudhary holds a postgraduate diploma in Computer Applications, Planning Member Mustafain Kazmi is a law graduate with a Master’s in Mass Communications, while Member Estate Shaista Sohail is a BPS-20 DMG officer who holds a Master’s in Economics.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 29th, 2013.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) on Tuesday submitted to the Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat a report containing the civic agency’s comments on the recommendations of an Islamabad High Court-appointed judicial commission on various projects.
The CDA informed that in most projects inquiries had already been ordered.
However, the civic agency expressed its reservations over a recommendation pertaining to its members being restricted to experts in their respective technical posts, hold relevant educational qualification against the technical posts including Member Finance, Member Engineering and Member Planning and Design in CDA.
In its reply, the CDA stated that its members’ positions were management level positions that required management and leadership as well as policy planning and development skills.
It added that members dealt with both technical and non-technical matters both at the policy and executive levels and for technical areas.
“It is accepted worldwide that experienced and senior personnel having multiple expertise with organisational management experience are placed at higher levels in organisations which are quite different in nature and function,” said the reply.
The CDA Finance Member Azhar Ali Chaudhary holds a postgraduate diploma in Computer Applications, Planning Member Mustafain Kazmi is a law graduate with a Master’s in Mass Communications, while Member Estate Shaista Sohail is a BPS-20 DMG officer who holds a Master’s in Economics.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 29th, 2013.