transport policy for civil servants in BS-20 to BS 22, the federal government enforced monetisation of transport facility for civil servants with effect from January 1, 2012. Some disciplinary action was also envisaged under the rules for monetisation and role of media was also highlighted to identify usage of official vehicles. But misuse of official cars has become norm in the top bureaucracy but the Cabinet Division is sleeping on rampant violations.
The basic objective of this scheme is observance of the austerity measures and eliminating the chances of misuse of official vehicles by ensuring that an entitled officer may use only one vehicle, according to his entitlement.
For the purpose of overall implementation of this scheme, all federal secretaries/principal accounting officers were made responsible to particularly ensure that each entitled officer in BS-20 to BS-22 including himself/herself, is not in possession or in use of any project vehicle or the departmental operation or general duty vehicle, as well as, any vehicle of an organisation or body corporate in his ex-officio capacity, except the only vehicle allocated to him/her through this monetisation policy.
It has, however, been observed that the entitled officers are misusing the official cars meant for operational duty purposes. In some cases, the vehicles pertaining to the projects or subordinate offices or organisations are also being used by the Ministries/Divisions in violation of the undertaking given by each officer. Moreover, in certain cases the vehicles rendered surplus due to revision of unauthorised strength of each ministry/division have also not yet been surrendered to the Cabinet Division.
According to Planning Commission’s study, the government spent Rs530,000 per month on every grade-22 officer but it does not include luxuries for them in the shape of having one kanal plots and membership of elite clubs such as Islamabad Club.This scribe also sent message on mobile phone of Advisor to PM Musdaiq Malik but got no response till filing of this report.