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The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to hold back the salary of 80 officials for failing to submit their educational credentials for verification.
The CDA Board secretary has forwarded a list of 80 officers to the accounts department with a direction not to release their October salary unless they furnish degrees for verification.
These officers of BPS-17 and above have failed to submit their degrees with a CDA committee mandated with the task to get their degrees verified by the Higher Education Commission and respective educational boards despite repeated reminders.
According to the CDA human resource department, around 1,100 gazetted officers are serving in BPS-16 and above and of them, around 1,020 have submitted their original educational documents for verification.
The issue of degrees verification of CDA officers traces back to 2012, when the Cabinet Division directed the civic agency to verify its officers’ educational credentials.
During the last three years, the CDA issued a total of 13 circulars asking the officers to submit their degrees.
A three-member committee headed by the CDA director-general administration has been conducting degree verifications.
In April, the National Accountability Bureau also took notice of the issue and directed the civic agency to complete the process at the earliest.
One member of the committee said the salary of last month was released due to Eidul Azha, but salary of these 80 officers would not be released this time around.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 17th, 2015.
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