282 inquiries lying pending in CDA, parliament told

ISLAMABAD: Nearly three hundred inquiries are lying pending in the Capital Development Authority (CDA) against its employees simultaneously on charges of corruption, malpractice, favoritism and theft? CDA is the one!
The development body tasked with giving the federal capital a regular facelift, has the unenviable distinction of initiating and then sitting over no less than 282 cases of corruption and official malfeasance, without any decision reached on any of them cases for years.
A list provided by the CDA to Parliament showed that presently 282 inquiries were pending with the CDA and some of the inquiries were pending last five years and inquiry panel/ person couldn’t complete it findings due to one reason or the other. Reasons given for pendency of such inquiries are very interesting. In some cases record is not provided, then accused or inquiry officers have been repatriated to their parent departments, record was with FIA so inquiry couldn’t be completed and common reason is case was pending in courts of law. Another reason was that competent authority didn’t agree with the finding of inquiry officer or report submitted with the competent authority and decision is awaited since two years or so.
The list of inquiries available with ‘The News’ showed that these inquiries are pending against CDA officials who have been involved in corruption of billions of rupees but due to pressure from political quarters and some mafias no action is being taken.
CDA official, on condition of anonymity, confided that these inquiries were tip of iceberg as cases of mega corruption involving billions of rupees were not reported to the Parliament. He gave example of the allotment of farm houses in one day during PPP government.
He further stated that when the CDA was under control of the Interior Ministry situation was comparatively better.
A source attached with the Human Resource wing told this correspondent that CDA had become a hub of mafias and they got backing of all segments of high-profile influentials. The CDA supposed to develop federal capita failed to fulfill its obligations but has failed to take very good care of individuals in last three decades, the source said. The CDA once used to be richest organisation now has no option but to sale plots even to meet its expenditures.
According to details Estate Wing responsible for allotment of plots is leading in number inquiries against its officers as 133 cases are pending since last three years or so. Then came Administrative and Finance Wings where number of pending inquiries is 41. Engineering wing is third as 38 inquiries are pending and environment wing with 38 inquiries, remained lowest (all initiated in last one year). The CDA has informed Parliament that they have decided 9 cases in last one years (all cases were minor as absence from duty, small theft etc).
Here are few cases, which were registered in 2013 but still resulted awaited. One example is 22 plots bogus files were created and plots allotted to different in different sectors of Islamabad.
The construction of residential complex in F-10 Markaz is also being inquired by the CDA but at snail’s pace. Then two inquiries regarding commercial complexes in F-7 Markaz (Jinnah Super) at plot no 19 and 13p and plot no 1 on F-6 Markaz (Super market). Here one shop costs from 50 million to 80 million rupees or even more. Similar are the stories in Industrial Area or residential sectors like F-11 etc.