ISLAMABAD :. A group of 26 senior officers of Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) has moved Islamabad High Court (IHC ) against depriving them of their right of promotion and the company policy of hiring outsiders on pick and choose basis against unreasonable salary package.
The affectees who have knocked at IHC door to seek its order to stop OGDCL management from hiring blue eyed against the policy and rules of the company included Malik Ejaz Ahmed , currently serving as Manager Development Geology,
Muhammad Yousaf, currently serving as Manager (Reserve) Evaluation, Zahoor Khan currently serving as Manager (Basin Study),
Rashid Jamil , currently serving as Manager Geo-Services (Exploration),.
Gul Rasul Khan currently serving as Manager Exploration,
Abdul Jabbar currently serving as Manager (Process & Plants),
Waseem-ul-Haq currently serving as Chief Engineer (CESS), Abdul Qayyum currently serving as Manager,
Sohail Anwar currently serving as Manager (P&P), Muhammad Ifrahim currently serving as Manager (Exploration), Tariq Mehmood currently serving as Manager (Production),
mtiaz Ali Memon currently serving as Chief (RMD), Shaukat Hayat currently serving as AGM (Geophysical Services),
Muhammad Iqbal Memon currently serving as AGM (Projects), Muhammad Iqbal Khosa , currently serving as AGM (PG), Pir Asim Jan Sirhindi, currently serving a Manager Production, Habib Ullah Chohan, currently serving as Manager Prodcution,
Muhammad Fahim , currently serving as Manager SDP, Shazia Talat currently serving asManager Exploration,
M. Mudassir Bhatti, currently serving as Manager (RMD), Ahsan Ali Shaikh,, currently serving as Manager Production,
Hammed Afzal currently serving as Manager Production, Khalid Mehmood Gilll, currently serving as Manager Seismic, Sajid Mehmood currently serving as Manager Seismic Operations,
Kusar Ali currently serving as Manager (P&P).
The affected officers of OGDCL have also questioned the role of the OGDCL board and called its endorsement of the company management policy of ignoring rightful officers with better experience and hiring of blue- eyed against salaries of millions of rupee as unlawful
OGDCL has literally turned into a centre of nepotism and a club of blue- eyed during the last around four years .
A gang of Pakistan Tehreek- e -Insaf (PTI) led by Asad Umar , right hand of ousted prime minister , Imran Khan ,managed to open a flood gate of hirings of its cronies at top positions of OGDCL against salaries of millions of rupees in each case .
Incumbent acting managing director , Khalid Subhani , welcomed every blue eyed of PTI gang to offer them senior positions without taking into account possible negative impact on the company of these illegal hirings .
Mr Subhani wanted to hang on acting managing director by appeasing Asad Umar & co by adjusting their cronies on hefty pay packages.
Interestingly, those who have been hired in OGDCL against the basic principle of merit do not match to those inhouse human resource which was denied the right of promotion through injecting hand picked blue- eyed .
A regular employee of general manager position of OGDCL having excellent
service record gets a salary of Rs 3 to 3.5 lakh lakhs a month whereas those who have been hired on senior positions like executive directors or general managers have been given a package of over Rs 2 million in each case . In some cases , those who had background of working with former companies of Asad Umar ( ENGRO or HUBCO ) have been hired against per month salary of Rs 2.5 million .
The role of OGDCL board in hiring of outsiders purely on political or other interest basis has also been questionable . It simply stamped the hirings no matter it came in violation of the company rules or it deprived the regularly employees of their basic right of promotions.
The affected group of OGDCL officers has pleaded before IHC to stop OGDCL management from hiring outsiders in violation of the company rules and ensure the regular employees get their right of promotions.
