Rawalpindi - In sheer violation of rules and regulations, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Cantt Cantonment Board (CCB) has appointed on temporary basis a retired brigadier doctor of Pakistan Army of BS-20 in Cantonment General Hospital (CGH) as Medical Superintendent (MS), a slot to be filled by a senior doctor of BS-19 of the hospital.
The vacant slot of MS CGH was filled by CEO in alleged violating of section 9 of the Pakistan Cantonment Servants Recruitment (PCSR), 1954.
Moreover, BS-20 post is not existed in CGH.
“The step of CEO CCB Fahim Zafar not only rattled the Military Lands and Cantonment Department Rawalpindi Region/Regional Headquarter (RHQ) but also created a wave of panic among the senior doctors working and waiting for promotions at the CGH,” reliable sources disclosed to The Nation here on Friday.
The temporary MS CGH Brig (Retd) Dr Athar Naeem Khakwani appointed by CEO has retired from Pakistan Army on 30/8/2014 and is said on Leave Preparatory to Retirement (LPR), a law of Pakistan Army according to which no officer can do job in any government sector for one year after his retirement.
Now, Dr Athar Naeem is getting double salaries one from his mother institution and second from CGH, sources said.
“CEO Fahim Zafar was directed by RHQ to initiate a proposal for making appointments on vacant posts in accordance with law,” sources informed.
Taking notice of the defiance of CEO, a big gun of RHQ had wrote a 9-pages letter (No.
28/553/DRR/2014/80) to CEO in which he highlighted the violations made by CEO in appointment of MS and also snubbed him for keeping the RHQ in dark as well as giving reply in roundabout manner in response to an explanation sought by RHQ, sources said.
The Nation also owned the copy of the letter.
They said that the high-up of RHQ also expressed his deep concern over the reply of letter by CEO with gap of 21 days.
They said that it was written in the letter that the appointment of MS by CEO was suffering from numerous legal infirmities, administrative lapses, chicaneries and misrepresentations which indeed if not deplorable of course cannot be applauded.
They said that it was also mentioned that CEO had not properly informed HQ ML&C after retirement of Dr Vaqar Azam from the post of MS CGH.
The letter says, “The appointment in question is infested with many knots and holes.
It is what that is called in legal parlance, bad in the eyes of law, on multiple scores i.
e.
exploitation of rule 9 of the PCSR, 1954, on the criterion of norms of ethics, on the touchstone of the re-employment, on the bar of cadre posting and lastly owing to lack of transparency as the post was not advertised.
”
It was also stated in the letter, “This aspect also merits underscoring that as per the Pakistan Cantonment Servants Recruitment and Promotion Police-2010, the method of appointment of the post of MS is 100 per cent by promotion on seniority cum fitness basis from amongst the doctors mentioned therein, the main requirement for which is minimum 15 years service in BS-17 and BS-18 out of which 5 years in BS-18.
The policy does not speak of any other mode of appointment of MS which is a purely cadre post, through any mode whether temporary and permanent.
” “The post of MS CGH is the pinnacle slot of the doctors cadre of the department of ML&C.
The doctors vie for it right from the inception of their service in this department and having reached the required BS-19 position legitimately espouse, with bated breath, for the same,” mentioned another para of the letter.
“This RHQ had asked vide its letter dated 26/12/2014 to apprise the date of retirement of Brig (Retd) Dr Athar Naeem Khakwani.
In response thereto the reply furnished vide CCB letter dated 7/1/2015 is not only in roundabout manner but is evasive as well as it states that “the date of retirement of Brig (Retd) Dr Athar is 30/8/2014 as reported by the officer.
”
The undersigned was thus constrained to ask for the documentary proof of retirement of the said officer vide this RHQ dated 6th instant.
Till now it has not been furnished.
It is thus presumed and that too on reasonable footings that there is some misconception and confusion to say it euphuistically in this regard.
May the gentleman officer is not yet finally retired from the army in which case he may be on LPR.
“In such an eventuality the appointment in question is patently against the law, both civil and army both, and may invite untoward situation.
The CEO too, in all fairness, cannot fend off liability on this account for he is responsible to verify credentials of a candidate while taking recourse to sec 9, PCSR, 1954,” the letter addressed.
In the letter, the RHQ high-up also highlighted the panic among senior doctors saying, “The appointment which ironically and regretfully has been effected by keeping law at bay has already send shock waves in the rank and file of medical cadre and those awaiting promotions are seething with a sense of consternation, discomfiture and discontent.
”
The RHQ high-up also forwarded the copies of letter to DG ML&C with the request to appoint MS CGH from among the cantonment servant cadre of doctors at the earliest convenience.
When contacted, CEO Fahim Zafar said that he appointed MS CGH as per law and has not violated section 9 of Pakistan Cantonment Servants Recruitment (PCSR), 1954.
“I exercised power of Board of CCB while giving slot of MS to a brigadier doctor,” he said, adding that RHQ raised objection over his this move, stating that an officer on LPR could not be re-employed as per law.
However, he said that he had contested the objection raised by RHQ.
“Let see what happens,” CEO Fahim Zafar added.
The vacant slot of MS CGH was filled by CEO in alleged violating of section 9 of the Pakistan Cantonment Servants Recruitment (PCSR), 1954.
Moreover, BS-20 post is not existed in CGH.
“The step of CEO CCB Fahim Zafar not only rattled the Military Lands and Cantonment Department Rawalpindi Region/Regional Headquarter (RHQ) but also created a wave of panic among the senior doctors working and waiting for promotions at the CGH,” reliable sources disclosed to The Nation here on Friday.
The temporary MS CGH Brig (Retd) Dr Athar Naeem Khakwani appointed by CEO has retired from Pakistan Army on 30/8/2014 and is said on Leave Preparatory to Retirement (LPR), a law of Pakistan Army according to which no officer can do job in any government sector for one year after his retirement.
Now, Dr Athar Naeem is getting double salaries one from his mother institution and second from CGH, sources said.
“CEO Fahim Zafar was directed by RHQ to initiate a proposal for making appointments on vacant posts in accordance with law,” sources informed.
Taking notice of the defiance of CEO, a big gun of RHQ had wrote a 9-pages letter (No.
28/553/DRR/2014/80) to CEO in which he highlighted the violations made by CEO in appointment of MS and also snubbed him for keeping the RHQ in dark as well as giving reply in roundabout manner in response to an explanation sought by RHQ, sources said.
The Nation also owned the copy of the letter.
They said that the high-up of RHQ also expressed his deep concern over the reply of letter by CEO with gap of 21 days.
They said that it was written in the letter that the appointment of MS by CEO was suffering from numerous legal infirmities, administrative lapses, chicaneries and misrepresentations which indeed if not deplorable of course cannot be applauded.
They said that it was also mentioned that CEO had not properly informed HQ ML&C after retirement of Dr Vaqar Azam from the post of MS CGH.
The letter says, “The appointment in question is infested with many knots and holes.
It is what that is called in legal parlance, bad in the eyes of law, on multiple scores i.
e.
exploitation of rule 9 of the PCSR, 1954, on the criterion of norms of ethics, on the touchstone of the re-employment, on the bar of cadre posting and lastly owing to lack of transparency as the post was not advertised.
”
It was also stated in the letter, “This aspect also merits underscoring that as per the Pakistan Cantonment Servants Recruitment and Promotion Police-2010, the method of appointment of the post of MS is 100 per cent by promotion on seniority cum fitness basis from amongst the doctors mentioned therein, the main requirement for which is minimum 15 years service in BS-17 and BS-18 out of which 5 years in BS-18.
The policy does not speak of any other mode of appointment of MS which is a purely cadre post, through any mode whether temporary and permanent.
” “The post of MS CGH is the pinnacle slot of the doctors cadre of the department of ML&C.
The doctors vie for it right from the inception of their service in this department and having reached the required BS-19 position legitimately espouse, with bated breath, for the same,” mentioned another para of the letter.
“This RHQ had asked vide its letter dated 26/12/2014 to apprise the date of retirement of Brig (Retd) Dr Athar Naeem Khakwani.
In response thereto the reply furnished vide CCB letter dated 7/1/2015 is not only in roundabout manner but is evasive as well as it states that “the date of retirement of Brig (Retd) Dr Athar is 30/8/2014 as reported by the officer.
”
The undersigned was thus constrained to ask for the documentary proof of retirement of the said officer vide this RHQ dated 6th instant.
Till now it has not been furnished.
It is thus presumed and that too on reasonable footings that there is some misconception and confusion to say it euphuistically in this regard.
May the gentleman officer is not yet finally retired from the army in which case he may be on LPR.
“In such an eventuality the appointment in question is patently against the law, both civil and army both, and may invite untoward situation.
The CEO too, in all fairness, cannot fend off liability on this account for he is responsible to verify credentials of a candidate while taking recourse to sec 9, PCSR, 1954,” the letter addressed.
In the letter, the RHQ high-up also highlighted the panic among senior doctors saying, “The appointment which ironically and regretfully has been effected by keeping law at bay has already send shock waves in the rank and file of medical cadre and those awaiting promotions are seething with a sense of consternation, discomfiture and discontent.
”
The RHQ high-up also forwarded the copies of letter to DG ML&C with the request to appoint MS CGH from among the cantonment servant cadre of doctors at the earliest convenience.
When contacted, CEO Fahim Zafar said that he appointed MS CGH as per law and has not violated section 9 of Pakistan Cantonment Servants Recruitment (PCSR), 1954.
“I exercised power of Board of CCB while giving slot of MS to a brigadier doctor,” he said, adding that RHQ raised objection over his this move, stating that an officer on LPR could not be re-employed as per law.
However, he said that he had contested the objection raised by RHQ.
“Let see what happens,” CEO Fahim Zafar added.
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