ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue’s outgoing chairman Dr Irshad has inaugurated a software to process cases for nomination of officers for foreign courses.
Memebr HRM Rozi Khan Burki, Member BTB Tasneem Rehman, Member IR Operations Rehmat Ullah Khan Wazir, and Member Customs Muhammad Zahid were also present. While inaugurating the soft ware, the FBR chairman stated that a transparent and merit based system for nomination of officers for foreign trainings was the need of the hour.
Under the web based system, not only all courses would be uploaded for the information of field formations but names of the officers nominated would also be available on web. The procedure for processing the cases had also been circulated vide HRM Circular 1/2017 dated 22.06.2017 which also had the approval of Board in Council. He further tasked the Member HRM to plan Chinese language courses for the officers of which would be of immense value in the near future.
Dr Irshad also appreciated the software development team in HRM for materializing the concept and advised to obtain feedback from the field to further improve the system.
Member HRM Rozi Khan Burki thanked the FBR chairman for his support and keen interest in developing the system to ensure transparency and merit in selection of officers for foreign trainings. He emphasised that the successful implementation of the system largely depended upon implementation of HRM circular 1/2017 and hoped that the field formation would provide its feedback to further improve the system.
Rozi Khan also expected positive use of the complaint cell which was under his direct supervision. He explained that the foreign courses available with HRM, IR Operations and Customs wings would be available under the tab “Training and Development” in HRM portion of the FBR web page. The officers would continue to apply online for the course of their choice to the respective wing of FBR.
