Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The administration of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) is going to issue a final show cause notice to over three dozen officers, who have failed to submit their attested degrees before the degree verification committee, besides their salary suspension for the last two months.

The civic body had initiated the process of degree verification in April 2015 after finding reports of hiring some employees on bogus degrees.

In the beginning, the management had wasted its one year in a useless practice as it wanted to get the degrees attested collectively, but the Higher Education Commission (HEC) refused to do this as it was not in the commission’s policy.

At that time, the Authority, after repeated notices to its employees had successfully collected the degrees of almost all officers, but this whole practice could not work due to the HEC’s policy.

After failing in the previous drive of one year to get the attestation of employees’ degrees from the HEC, the CDA gave a deadline of 30 days to its employees for attestation of their degrees on individual basis and asked them to submit a photocopy along with the original documents before the degree verification committee. Multiple deadlines one after another to submit the documents expired since June 2016, but the employees did not submit their HEC’s attested documents before the committee, which showed the careless and fearless behaviour of the CDA employees.

At the end, two months ago, the committee recommended the suspension of the salaries of those, who failed to submit their documents. Resultantly, a large number of employees have submitted their attested documents to avoid the suspension of salary, but over three dozen officers have yet to submit their degrees.

A well informed source said: “Now, the Authority is preparing to issue a final show cause notice to those whose documents are still missing.”

When contacted, the Director Staff of the Chairman CDA, Asif Shah Jahan, who is also the member of the degree verification committee responded: “We have received and verified around 11,000 degrees while some officers have still not submitted their documents.”

He further said: “Yes, we are going to issue a final notice to those who are not submitting their degrees and if they will not submit even after that then we will move their cases for disciplinary actions to the Human Resource Directorate (HRD).”

The whole story clearly indicates the state of affairs in the civic body that how and how much the officers give attention to the polices announced by the senior management.