Owing to a shortage of grade-20 and grade-21 government officers in Sindh, some public departments are being run without a secretary, The Express Tribune has learned. As a result, efforts are being made to run the administrative affairs of the relevant departments by assigning additional charges to the secretaries of other departments. According to sources, the federal government has been appointing fewer senior officers for Sindh, which has led to a shortage of grade-20 and grade-21 officers in the province. Moreover, due to the National Accountability Bureau’s operations in government departments across Sindh, many senior federal government officials do not want to be appointed in the province to avoid scrutiny and trouble. “According to the recommendations of the Service Reform Committee headed by Dr Ishrat Hussain, provincial officers should be appointed for the posts for which federal officers are not available.

Source: The Express Tribune October 09, 2020 03:56 UTC