ISLAMABAD: What is being described as reorganization and restructuring of the Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (Pral), the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) abolished nine senior cadre posts and terminated the services of seven senior officials including General Managers/ Chief Managers.
The reorganization is part of the implementation plan proposed by FBR Member Information Technology (IT) Raana Ahmed and the decision was made in the meeting of Pral’s Board of Directors held at FBR House with its Chairman Tariq Bajwa in the chair.
Among those relieved from services included General Manager (Automation) Imtiaz Ahmed Khan. Pral’s existing organogram had to be rationalised, especially at the levels of General Managers and Chief Managers. Some posts of Chief Managers were created only to accommodate people and workload was thinly distributed amongst them.
Hence, they were either underworked or were doing duplicate jobs. This state of affairs had placed heavy financial burden on the company and was also hampering optimal performance by the company. The Pral Board of Directors being the competent authority may abolish any post under sub-rule 18.1 of Pral Service Rules, 1998, which is reproduced hereunder:
“18.1 The Competent Authority may, at anytime, in the best interest of the Company create or abolish or upgrade any post or posts in any class or classes, whether permanent or temporary.” The Pral BoD being the competent authority, may also terminate the services of the employee, under sub-rule 31.1 of Pral Service Rules, 1998.
Secondly, the post of General Manager (Software Development) is duplicate in the presence of the post of GM (Software Development-II) doing the same job. Hence, it is abolished under sub-rule 18.1. Thirdly, the post of General Manager (Operations) existed from 1994 to 2009. Operation is a critical area which needs involvement of the top management.
The BoD unanimously decided that services of General Manager (Automation) are terminated under sub-rule 31.2 and relieved Chief Manager (Headquarters) Faisal Saleem of service on expiry of contract of service. Similarly the services of Chief Manager (Services and Administration) Muhammad Rafique Raja are terminated under sub-rule 31.2, Chief Manager (MIS) Zafar Iqbal was terminated under sub-rule 31.2, the services of Chief Manager Operations (Taxpayer Services) Ruqayya Khan were terminated under sub-rule 31.2 and the services of Chief Manager (Development-I) Muhammad Usman were terminated under sub-rule 31.2 while Chief Manager (Development-II) Muhammad Khawar was terminated under sub-rule 31.2.
The Pral BoD meeting was attended by FBR Chairman Tariq Bajwa, Yasmin Saud, Member (HRM)/Director Pral B0D, Nisar Muhammad Khan, Member (Customs)/ (SP&S)/Director Pral BoD, Muhammad Ashraf Khan, Member (IR-Operations)/ Director Pral BoD, Shahid Hussain Jatoi, Member (Admin)/Director Pral BoD, Ahmed Dildar, Member (Legal)/Director Pral BoD and Raana Ahmed, Member (IT)/Director Pral BoD.
