SC directs OGDC to submit report

ISLAMABAD - The apex court on Thursday directed the Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDCL) to
submit details regarding the expenditures incurred on establishment of Oil and Gas Training Institute and on the
training of each individual at the institute.
A three-member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and
comprising Justice Ch Ijaz Ahmad and Justice Jawwad S Khawaja was hearing a case regarding denial of
employment to the trained graduates of the Oil and Gas Training Institute, a training institute of the OGDCL.
Counsel for the petitioners, Advocate Iftikhar Gilani submitted before the court that the OGDCL had recruited
270 graduates including engineers and geologists in 2007 for training in its institute.
The recruited graduates had signed a bond with the OGDCL that they would serve in the company for five years
after completion of their training, Gilani submitted. Moreover, as a pre-condition, the graduates had resigned
from their existing jobs or had ceased their further studies.
Furthermore, only first division holder graduates had been recruited for the training after giving tests and
interviews and regular tests were conducted on weekly basis during their training and candidates failing to
secure 80pc marks were dropped from further training, counsel for the petitioners contended.
At the end of the training, he further submitted, the company refused to employ the graduates trained in its own
institute on the grounds that there was ban on employment. However, he said, the company later advertised