…You can still draw a salary from the Sindh govt. The ‘mere’ 12,000 who are receiving double the salary are possibly those who are taking advantage of the many people who were reinducted by PPP into national organizations, but chose not to rejoin. Kinda similar to how votes are cast on behalf of those who dont show up on polling day.
The working dead - thenews.com.pk
**A month ago there was the national scandal of thousands of ghost schools spread across the country; and today we have yet another example of the Sindh government being unable to manage much beyond the loose change in its pockets. In a jaw-dropping admission of serial incompetence, the Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon revealed that there were 338 dead employees on the books and a mere 12,000 who were somehow receiving double the salary they were entitled to. There are 401,000 employees of the Sindh government but only 328,000 have Computerised National Identity Cards (CNIC). Of the other 73,000 there are 21,438 who have no records at all so one might wonder how it is they get paid; and the remainder have faulty identity cards.
These revelations were made as the Information Minister inaugurated the ‘Sindh Employees Smart Card Centre’, a Nadra project designed to cut down on employment irregularities. A further layer of wonderment is added as the minister hoped that a further 26,000 new job vacancies would be created in government departments. Is this in addition to the 12,000 who already have two jobs, we wonder, and does Sindh really need another 26,000 adding to a workforce that is already edging towards half a million? There is a distinct sense that the whole muddled business is a case of shutting the stable door long after the horses have galloped off up the road. There is no agreement that the new scheme will do much to rectify matters and a provincial official opined that whilst the Smart Card may be useful in the Sindh Secretariat it was…’ unlikely to ensure the attendance and punctuality of employees throughout the province.’ Given that Nadra is going to charge Rs900 per card, it would appear to be the only entity emerging from this mess that has made a profit – all others concerned seem to be standing in the middle of the road tearing up high-denomination notes and waving farewell to ghost employees as they toddle of for duty at the ghost schools. Governance? A troupe of performing parrots would do a better job.
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