ISLAMABAD: The shortcomings and lacunas in the relevant rules and regulations deprived the employees of Pakistan Revenue Automaton Limited (PRAL) of their December salary. The situation panicked the employees of the PRAL, a subsidiary of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and added to their miseries.
The non-payment of salary for the month of December caused great concerns among all workers of the department. It has been learnt that the payment of the salary was delayed due to a delay in submitting the salary file of the employees to the Accountant General of Pakistan (AGP).
It is to be noted that the FBR has revised job description of FBR Member Information Technology and she has been empowered to oversee cleansing of existing data, supervise PRAL’s overall management including administrative, financial and technical activities and monitor and evaluate overall performance of CEO.
The FBR Member IT has also been empowered to monitor and control software development and implementation by PRAL/external vendors and grant mandatory prior approval for initiating new or modifying/enhancing/shelving existing software application; undertake periodic System Audits for Quality Assurance, especially security of the Operational Software, under development or developed and deployed, and resource Management for such System Audits; constitute user groups for various ICT activities; liaise with other Wings of FBR for Business Need Analysis and co-ordinate with Directorates General (T&R) for ICT Training of end-users. Practically, the management and administration has been brought under the control of FBR IT Wing. So far, the FBR IT Wing has not completed the necessary formalities for timely payment of monthly pay to the PRAL employees.
