Rawalpindi - Divisional Superintendent of Pakistan Railway (PR), Munawar Khan has said that all the allotments of residential units are being made purely on merit and no one is favoured in this regard.
He added that this merit-based policy of PR is disliked by some employees who have been using illegal ways to get residential quarters which are not in accordance with their entitlements. “There is an interesting case in the department where an employee of BPS-9 wants to get a residential quarter that is officially allowed to an officer of BPS-16,” he said. He made it clear that no illegal pressure would be tolerated and all the process of allotment would be done as per law and merit.
Munawar Khan expressed these views while talking to this scribe on Tuesday in response to a news report published in The Nation on May 21, 2015 regarding the allotment issue of PR residences.
He said that all are equal in the eyes of PR laws. He said that a reservation clerk Mujtaba Ali Bhatti had been using illegal ways to pressurise the railway authorities for getting a residential quarter. He said that the employee was allotted a residential quarter 27-B purely on merit and as per his entitlement but he was not happy over the allotment. Munawar said that Mujtaba approached courts, including teh Supreme Court, against railways authorities but the courts dismissed his pleas. The DS added that the reservation clerk also lodged complaint against him at Wafaqi Mohtasib and he (DS) had submitted his reply.