The Ministry of Commerce's Director Trade Organisation, Pir Muhammad Khan Bangash took a serious note over charging of Rs 6,000 per member as annual renewal fee instead of Rs 3000. He directed Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) to get only Rs 3000 renewal fee from its members as per rules and excess amount must be refunded to them as early as possible.
The director said that the owner, director or partner of every Cotton Ginning and/or pressing factory which is in operation and the leaseholder of such a cotton ginning /pressing factory, shall be eligible for the membership of the association provided that any factory which does not continue its ginning operation for the next season onwards, shall cease to be member of the association, however ,if circumstances require, may continue its membership of the Association, by paying annual subscription for maximum period of three consecutive years from the year of cessation of operation.
Director said that a large number of complaints received from the PCGA members that the association was violating the rules and regulations. A group of cotton ginners has refused to pay the cotton cess of Rs 5 per bale for cotton standardisation fee for meeting establishment and operational expenses of Pakistan Cotton Standard Institute (PCSI).
The ginners should also have the vision to feel importance of better quality cotton in the days to come. They ought to share in each and every effort of bringing improvement in lint quality whatsoever .The PCSI and the proposed Ginning Institute are their babies and they should come forward to own and feed them whole-heartedly in their own interest.
There were gross irregularities in the construction of new building of PCGA house in Multan and audit team had reportedly detected the misappropriation of Rs 4.7 million by the body but no action was taken against the Chairman and the committee, which was responsible for this irregularity. Neither a case referred to Federal Investigation Agency nor to NAB so far.
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