KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue FBR’s committee aimed at recruiting candidates in the Pakistan Customs from grades 1 to 10 met here in the committee room under the chairmanship of Director Customs Valuation Dr Manzoor Memon.
It is mentioned here that the FBR had recently formed a committee headed by Dr Manzoor Memon, Director, DIrectorate General of Customs Valuation, and Additional Collector Hyderabad Omar Shafique and Deputy Director, Directorate General of Customs Valuation Nausheen Riaz Khan as committee members.
The meeting met here and discussed in details the tests results provided by the NTS that undertook written tests of the candidates. “The committee has shortlisted around 445 candidates for the interviews and call letters would be issued to them within days,” sources told Customs Today.
According to sources, the committee shortlisted at least 70 candidates for the posts in Input Output Cooeficient Organization IOCO, 70 at DGTO, 60 in DIrectorate General Customs Valuation, 246 in the Posts Clearance Audit. The interview would be undertaken on Fridays, Saturdays and Sunday from the first week of January 2016, sources added.
There was a complete ban imposed on the fresh recruitment in the Pakistan Customs since 1994, however, the FBR twice in the governments of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) to induct new staff to run the affairs in a proper manner.
Presently, the Pakistan Customs is facing dearth of staff and a large number of senior officials are retiring on attaining sixty years of age. And almost whole employees would stand retire by the end of year 2017, sources added.
And FBR ran an advertisement seeking applications from the aspiring candiates for the jobs and the candidates were gone through the NTS test.
After the test, the FBR has constituted various committee to supervises/hold interviews of the successful candidates so that the shortage of staff could be contained.
