PESHAWAR: Like other parts of the country a large number of employees in Customs department and Regional Tax office Peshawar are awaiting their promotions in next grades as promised by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in his budget 2014-15 speech.
A Senior Superintendent of RTO Peshawar told Customs Today that their cases were in the Court and if they were not promoted, then they will prepare their future line of action. He added that some quarters were creating hurdles in the promotions of the Superintendents of the department.
“Some Superintendents were retired without getting their promised and much awaited promotion while the next budget for the fiscal year 2015-16 is going to be announced in the coming days” he said. The official complained that some grade-16 employees of secretariat and other departments were promoted as promised by the federal government but the same has been denied to the Customs department officials.
He said that if the Finance Minister is unable to implement his decision, then he should consider quitting the job rather making new promises of public and government employees’ welfare. He said that the officials in the sales tax and income tax departments are feeling discrimination and some of them have even abandoned doing their job honestly out of depression.
Some officials of the sales tax departments had also moved Peshawar High Court to repatriate the officials from the income tax and sales tax departments to their parent department and succeeded in getting the verdict in their favour but it is yet to be implemented, he said.
He said that two separate committees were also constituted following orders of the Court to look into the matter but yet nothing concrete is done in this regard. He appealed to Prime Minister and President to look into the matter and promote all grade-16 officers into grade-17 prior to announcement of the next financial year.
