ISLAMABAD - The officers of the Capital Development Authority on Monday wrote to the Cabinet Division and Chairman CDA as well to make arrangements regarding repatriation of as many as 102 officers/officials working on deputation in the civic agency to their parent departments as part of implementation of Islamabad High Court’s recent judgement in this regard.
The Islamabad High Court on May 3, 2012 while deciding a writ petition filed by some officials of Islamabad Police has ordered the repatriation of the police officials deputed in Islamabad Police from other departments on deputation. The officials are of the view that a number of deputationists are working in CDA and their cases of deputation are identical to those, which have been assailed in the writ petition filed by Islamabad Police officials. They further contended that the demands of the CDA Employees are also identical to the demands of writ petitioners mentioned above hence it is, therefore requested that in the perspective of above mentioned decision the deputationists working in the CDA may also be repatriated as the same is identical matter.
The officials further stated that IHC decision has been implemented and the deputationists are being repatriated from the Islamabad Police to their parent departments. Recently, while hearing a land acquisition case against CDA, the IHC Judge Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui has observed that “political appointments have marred the affairs of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and this practice was believed to be one of the reasons for maladministration, corruption and non-provision of basic civic amenities to the residents.”
The officials of CDA are of the view that they have been serving the civic agency for many years but their promotions were delayed due to the deputationists coming from other departments. Currently, 102 deputationists are working in CDA. As many as, 18 of the deputationists are working as directors in various directorates of the Authority denying the right to promotion to several regular employees. Usually, the deputationists prefer to get themselves induct in estate wing of the CDA. The matter of fact is that not only the deputy directors, directors but the CDA Member Estate is also a deputationist. The basic aim, besides abundance of corruption opportunities, of the deputationist to serve CDA is the option of getting a residential plot upon one-year completion of their services in the Authority on deputation, which is impossible in their parent departments.