PCGA fails to refund excess renewal fee

Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) neither recovered the embezzled amount of Rs 4.7 million from the concerned persons who were responsible for this irregularity, nor excess renewal fee of Rs 3,000 per annum was repaid to its members.
This act may affect its registration under the Trade Organisation Ordinance (TOO) though Ministry of Commerce's Director Trade Organisation, Pir Muhammad Khan Bangash asked the chairman of PCGA to return Rs 3,000 (per annum) to its members which was in excess collected from them during the last five or more years, but these instruction were not adhered by the body and now PCGA was reluctant to repay at least Rs 15,000 per member.
Director Trade Organisation took a serious view on the extortion of Rs 6,000 per member as annual renewal fee and asked the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) to get only Rs 3,000 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 lease holder 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, it 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 large number of complaints received by him 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 bail 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.