Corruption Free Paksitan, A Top Priority Of NAB: Javed Iqbal
Fakhir Rizvi Published February 13, 2018 | 09:46 PM
Chairman of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Justice (R) Javed Iqbal here on Tuesday said that NAB's top most priority was to make the country corruption free as it was the largest institution of the country engaged in this activity
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Feb, 2018 ) :Chairman of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Justice (R) Javed Iqbal here on Tuesday said that NAB's top most priority was to make the country corruption free as it was the largest institution of the country engaged in this activity.
The chairman expressed these views during a meeting to review the performance of Awareness and Prevention Division of NAB. Clause 33-C of NAB law disseminate information among the people about consequences of corruption on country's development.
According to clause 33-B of NAB, all Federal, provincial public sector departments are bound to submit details of procurement, feasibility report , tendering of the contracts of over Rs 50 million to NAB.
Law authorises NAB to scrutinise the contracts of over Rs 50 million or above. This helps ensuring adhering to PPRA rules and other rules before awarding any contract.
This also helps ensuring merit and transparency in awarding the contracts and saving losses to public exchequer, besides ensuring the completion of public sector projects in accordance with law.
Chairman NAB took notice of not submitting the details of procurement contracts and tendering of over Rs 50 million projects by some public sector departments to NAB for scrutiny and directed relevant NAB DGs to ensure submitting the copies of over Rs 50 million for above projects to NAB by relevant departments.
He directed strict action against the departments not ready to submit Rs 50 million or above projects to NAB for scrutiny. Chairman NAB directed the officers of NAB to utilize their energies for promoting merit and transparency which would enhance their prestige besides augmenting reputation of NAB.
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