AGP takes notice of incorrect data of employees

Accountant General Punjab, Muhammad Jamil Bhatti reviews performance of Drawing and Disbursing Officers (DDOs) of all provincial departments regarding correction of basic data of employees working under their administrative control. As per instructions, corrected data is to be submitted to AG office and concerned District Accounts Offices by May 12, 2011, in any case.
The salary payments, in case of employees continuing in the system with incorrect data, will be stopped with effect from May 01, 2011 and cases of such employees will be sent to their respective administrative departments for disciplinary action against them, warned AG Punjab.
In a circular issued to the Punjab Finance Department, District Accounts Offices and DDOs of all provincial departments, the AGP had mentioned that decision to correct the basic data of employees ie CNIC number, date of birth and date of entry into government service, made in a meeting of pension administrative task force of Punjab government. The AG Office continued to pay salaries to the government employees without any delay despite having incorrect data. The concerned department and AG office as well as the government employees would have to face problems at the time of their retirement, pension payment, salary payment, compilation of service record and payment of GP Fund if the data of the concerned employees remains incomplete or incorrect in the computerized system (PIFRA), functioning in AG Office, told AG Punjab.
Accountant General Punjab issued directions to all DDOs to collect payrolls/pay slips of the active government employees from AG office by May 05 and submit them after correction with red ink to the AG office by May 12, 2011, failing to which the employees having incomplete or incorrect data would not be able to get their salaries from next month. Such employees will also have to face disciplinary action as AG Office will report cases of such employees to their respective administrative departments but DDos have reacted very slowly on this issue so far. It is in the best interest of all such government servants whose data is still incorrect/incomplete on the system, to get it corrected immediately, he said.