ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is continuing deliberations on formulation of new policy guidelines for the allotments of houses to officers, it was learnt Friday.
Issues of out of turn allotments, abandoning of waiting list as well as inclusion of officers in the entitlement list are likely to be sorted out in the new policy guidelines. A well-placed source at the FBR Friday told Customs Today that the FBR was carrying out heightened deliberations of the formulation of new policy guidelines for the allotment of houses to the officers.
The need for the revision of the existing policy guidelines was felt under the pressure of comparatively lower grade officers in the entitlement list. “Officers of grade 19 have been demanding of the higher authorities since long to include them also in the list of entitled people for the allotment of FBR houses,” the source said, adding that after immense pressure from the demanders, the higher authorities showed their intention to revise the existing policy guidelines.
Under the existing policy guidelines, FBR’s Chief Commissioners/RTOs Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi make the allotment process of the houses to officers. Presently only the officers of higher grade than 19 are entitled for the allotments of the houses alone. However, the source said that officers of grade-19 were likely to be included in the list of entitled officers for the allotment of houses.
“But, actual lacuna in this procedure is the out of turn allotment of the house which result in depression among officers whose names are in the waiting list,” the source said, adding that whenever an officer of higher grade is transferred to any other station, he asks immediate allotment of house and his demand is met without taking care of the waiting list.
“In the coming policy guidelines, this issue is also being tackled in an appropriate manner on which this issue has been tackled by the Ministry of Housing and Works,” the source added, saying that Ministry of Housing and Works had also stopped out of turn allotments of the houses to the government servants.
