MULTAN: Customs employees are not pleased with the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) existing recruitment policy because they are deprived to avail their employee’s quota due to criteria for applicants.
The FBR has initiated the recruitment process in all Collectorates of the Customs including Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation (I and I), Regional Tax offices (RTOs) across Pakistan. Customs employees are facing difficulties for applying their young children on the employee’s quota as new hiring of staff in Customs Department announced.
Multan Customs staff who are trying to avail the scheme of appointment under “son quota“continue to suffer as a procedural bar curtailing powers of Collector Customs in the existing appointments of the FBR in which their children have to appear in the written test.
The FBR have not allocated any specific quota for the children of the Customs employees. Customs employees are not pleased with the recruitment process due to missing of specific quota for employees.
Most of Customs employees are of the view that their children should be exempted from the written test conducted by National Testing Service (NTS) for new recruitment process in order to accommodate the customs employees. The FBR has not mentioned any specific proportion for the recruitment process in advertisement for hiring o f new staff.
According to details, Collectors Customs under rules of procedure can make appointments from Grade-I to Grade-15 including Sepoy (BPS 5), LDC (BPS 7), UDC (BPS 9), Steno Typist (BPS 14 and Assistant (BPS 14) on employees quota but the allocation of specific quota is missing for the employment of an employee’s son in the current scheme. Collector Customs cannot make the appointment in BPS 16 and above under ‘son quota.
Sources told Customs Today, that Some of Customs employees are with a view that they have served their whole life to Customs department and they must be acknowledged by giving job in the department.
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