PTDC employs without salaries since September

PTDC employs without salaries since September

Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation employs are still lurking in shadows as their fate hangs in doldrums for the last several months. PTDC has not paid the salaries of the employs, mainly contractual and temporary, since September this year and these
employs are still waiting for some kind of relief from the inept government.

Following the approval of the 18^th constitutional amendment by the parliament earlier in the year, most of the social development sector corporations which have been functioning under the federal government will be devolved to the respective provinces,
something which has not taken place as yet. The officials of the PTDC cite this hurdle as the main reason why the corporation is not able to pay the salaries to its employs for several months.

“The PTDC employees have not been receiving their salaries since September this year, the government has stopped salaries of the employees putting 800 families in a miserable condition,” Anis Ahmed another employee of the corporation said.

While most of the provinces have declined to accept various other institutions which fall under the category of the 18^th amendment and need to be devolved, they have jumped on the opportunity to grab whatever is left of the ailing PTDC, primarily
because of its huge stockpile of real estate assets. PTDC has no fewer than 39 hotels, motels and rest houses across the country, worth around 35 billion.

“Although the ministry of culture and tourism, under which the PTDC was working, has already been devolved, the federal government wants to retain the PTDC assets while the provinces also have their eyes on entities such as hotels, motels and resorts located
within their jurisdiction,” the official said.

Senator Raza Rabbani said the ministry of tourism has been devolved to provinces in the second phase of devolution of powers but Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation is stuck at the Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC) division because the distribution
of the PTDC assets and its liabilities was a laborious and lengthy procedure.

However, the PTDC employees were of the view that the organisation had not had sufficient funds to pay salaries to its employees as the government had stopped providing funds and the corporation`s income generation capacity had declined due to terrorism.

They have also demanded the government to decide the PTDC future so they get at least their monthly salaries and dues.They have advised the government to sell a precious 200 kanals of land of the PTDC in Zone 5 and a 12 kanal plot close to the building of
Privatization Commission on Constitution Avenue.The number of employees working with the PTDC are said to be 800 including 400 regular and 400 contractual.

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Posted by Naveed A Bari on Dec 27 2011. Filed under Pakistan. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry