ECP lifts ban on recruitment, transfer & development projects
The ECP had imposed ban on recruitments and development schemes on April 11
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday lifted ban on all types of recruitments, postings and transfers, and development projects in the country with immediate effect.
According to a notification issued today, the commission said notification in connection with freezing funds of local government institutions has also been withdrawn.
The ECP had imposed ban on recruitments and development schemes on April 11 in view of general elections held on 25th of this month.
Moreover, the ban on announcing development projects and transfer/posting has also been lifted.
Earlier, owing to the general elections, the ECP had slapped a ban on new recruitments of public servants in the federal, provincial and local government departments and execution of development projects. The Commission has termed the possible induction of thousands of people in the government departments as "pre-poll rigging."
The Commission said: "For tangible reasons, the Election Commission was of the considered view that such mass recruitments at this point of time when the general elections of the National Assembly and provincial assemblies are going to take place in the offing will substantially influence outcome of election." The Commission said that it was imperative on all standards of legal, moral and democratic ethics that all kinds of recruitments except the recruitments which are made by the federal and provincial public service commissions be banned forthwith.
The Commission had considered the repeated concern of the people as expressed and voiced in the national press that money allocated to various important development projects in the country is being diverted to the development schemes in the constituencies, is nothing short of yet another facet of pre-poll rigging.
