CAA told to satisfy auditor on Islamabad airport corruption
CAA told to satisfy auditor on Islamabad airport corruption
by Staff Report , (Last Updated March 4, 2020)
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Wednesday gave last chance to Civil Aviation Division (CAA) to satisfy the Auditor General of Pakistan upon their objections highlighting corruption in the construction of new Islamabad International Airport (IIA).
The committee led by Chairman Rana Tanvir Hussain gave 15 days to the secretary aviation to provide the entire record of the IIA and furnish a report to the committee to fix the responsibility of malpractices.
The audit officials informed the committee that Project Director of Islamabad International Airport made an unauthentic payment without detailed measurement of each item of work done in the measurement book.
The audit officials maintained that the authenticity of the payment could not be verified due to the non-maintenance of measurement books.
The committee was also briefed that the CAA constructed a secondary runway parallel to the main runway with a distance of 210 meters between the center lines of both the runways against the recommended distance of 1035 meters at cost of Rs 719.9 million.
The Project Director of NBBIA, said that runway basically served the purpose of the parallel taxiway as originally planned, under normal conditions, however, it would be utilized as a runway during an emergency only.
The PAC chief, however, rejected the management stance and directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to share its inquiry report in that regard.
The audit official also informed that CAA also made irregular payments due to unauthorized change of the joint venture.
The committee directed FIA to furnish an inquiry report to the committee in two week's time and fix responsibility on the officials behind this irregular payment.
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