Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has encountered another crisis after the Business Advisory Committee of the Parliament repatriated 54 CDA employees to their parent department.

These employees were deputed on various posts at the Parliament Lodges and the hostel. On the directives of the Business Advisory Committee of the Parliament, the CDA Human Resources Development Directorate directed these 54 employees to report to the HRD with immediate effect and till further orders.

Expressing concern over the issue, the CDA Mazdoor Union had demanded of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly to review the decision as these employees were recruited only for the posts on which they were currently working.

In a letter written to the Deputy Speaker National Assembly, the CDA Mazdoor Union said that these employees couldn’t be absorbed elsewhere as no such posts were available in the CDA.

It further requested the deputy speaker to cancel the orders as they were taken without taking the CBA into confidence and it could create employment problems for the staff concerned.

An official of the HRD, CDA, told this scribe that these employees were working against the sanctioned posts and the CDA had no other place to appoint them.

He said the decision could later lead to the removal of these employees from service as the CDA could find no grounds to let them continue their jobs and couldn’t afford to pay their salaries.

The employees include Sub-Engineer Saeedullah Khan, Sub-Engineer Muahammad Khan, Sub-Engineer Ehsan Iqbal, Hafiz Awais Ahmed Sadiq, Muhammad Shabir, Zulifqar Ali, Muhammad Akbar, Yousaf Masih, Shozab Raza, Liaqat Ali, Banaras Khan, Masood Ahmed, Muhammad Jahangir, Amir Jan, Sarfraz Ahmed, Syed Zulfiqar Hussain, Muhammad Fayyaz, Waheed Akhtar, Zahid Mehmood, Naseer Ahmed, Muhammad Qadeer, Hassan Mehmood, Ziaullah Khan, Mehboob Hussain, Iftikhar Ahmed, Muhammad Hanif, Irfan Muhammad, Aashiq Masih, Ahmed Khan, Maqbool Ahmed, Shahzad Ahmed, Muhammad Zamir, Mushtaq Masih, Muhammad Irshad, Amjad Hussain Shah, Arshad Mehmood, Muhammad Hassan, Muhammad Ramzan, Naseer Masih, Muhammad Rashid, Manzoor Hussain, Waheed Ahmed, Muhammad Jamil, Shakeel Ahmed, Jahangir Shah, Muhammad Shakeel, Nasir Mehmood, Shabaz Tahir, zahid Pervaiz, Mubasher Hafeez, Zubair Ali Shah, Khalid Rasheed, Abdul Hameed and Manzoor Ahmed.

It may be mentioned here that the CDA was already facing a crisis after the shifting of powers of its important directorates to the Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC). The CDA has refused to transfer the services of its 9000 employees to the IMO arguing that this decision was taken previously without the consultation of the CDA Mazdoor Union. The matter was now sub-judice and the court had also directed to resolve the issue by taking all the stakeholders into confidence.

The current strife between the two administrative departments is also placing a question mark on the future fate
of the IMO in the
federal capital.