Guidelines for Posting of Project Directors on Deputation or Additional Charge in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Notification

To

1. The Additional Chief Secretary, Home & TAs Department.
2. The Senior Member, Board of Revenue, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
3. All Administrative Secretaries to Govt. of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Subject,           POSTING OF PROJECT DIRECTORS ON DEPUTATION/ ADDITIONAL CHARGE

Respected Sir,

I am directed to refer to the subject noted above and to state that as per Project Implementation Policy, 2022, posting/transfers of Civil Servant of BPS-17 and above officers on additional charge/deputation basis to the project post is the domain of the Provincial Project Selection Committee (PPSC) headed by Additional Chief Secretary Planning & Development Department consisting of members from Finance, Establishment and concerned department. Moreover, as per provision in PIP 2022, Administrative Secretary can also assign additional charge of the post of Project Director in case of emergency, however, it has been made a routine practice which shall be discouraged.

I am further directed to inform that as per Project Policy, 2022, Deputation period is three (03) years further extendable to two (02) years. Similarly, Section-3(xiv) of Chapter-4 of Project Implementation Policy, 2022 states that Additional charge of the post shall not be given for a period of more than 06 months. However, during scrutiny of the record provided by Administrative Departments, it has been observed that period/tenure of Additional Charge/Deputation of most of the Project Directors has been expired, however, they are still working as Project Directors without referring the cases to P&D Department for consideration/approval of PPSC. Furthermore, in some administrative departments officers hold more than one charge of project posts, resultantly the project activities/execution suffers, which need to be identified and place before PPSC.

Keeping in view the above, I am therefore, directed to request to forward working papers of these projects for consideration of PPSC, in light of PIP, 2022, and this department’s instructions dated 26-01-2024 (copy enclosed) to streamline the process, please.

Yours faithfully,

End: As above.

Section Officer (Estt:)