Dozens of vehicles of secretariat and cabinet divisions and several ministries that need minor repairs have been rusting in parking lots, ware house and private garages in the federal capital.
While these vehicles continue depreciate their market value owing to lack of maintenance, ministries and divisions continue to purchase new vehicles, incurring millions on the national kitty, it emerged during a survey carried out by Online in Islamabad secretariat.
Dozens of vehicles bought during the tenure of Pakistan People’s Party government have been lying abandoned in different locations despite their being in good condition. But the officials’ apathy has not only been devaluing them but also causing millions of rupees loss to the national exchequer
A source in the cabinet division confided that the PPP government had introduced a policy by giving allowances to government officials amounting from Rs68, 000 to 98,000 to stop usage of government vehicles by officers. However, the officials and officers continue to use government vehicles even for personal work while drawing vehicle allowance.
During the survey it transpired that several vehicles have been abandoned at the ware-houses and parking lots for deflated and damaged tyres and other smaller glitches. “The federal government especially the finance ministry needs to take the misuse of vehicles into consideration if it really wanted to salvage the national kitty from being looted any further,” said an official in the finance division on the condition of anonymity. He said that a complete overhaul of the all-powerful bureaucracy was desperately needed to put the system on track to make the country a really welfare state, as according to him, most senior bureaucrats did not think beyond their personal gains and benefits.
