LAHORE, Jan 26: The Punjab Management Service Association (PMSA) on Wednesday rejected the downsizing plan by the provincial government which reportedly would save Rs6.1 billion, advancing its proposals that, according to the association, would save Rs80 billion per annum.

The government could save Rs30 billion a year through curtailing expenditures and earn another Rs50 billion through revenue reforms.

It said that some posts of Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) had also been abolished because the association had demanded that the police service posts should be included in the total posts of S&GAD and the PCS/PSS should be given its share out of them. By abolishing posts of police, share of PCS/PSS will also be decreased.

The association said if the rightsizing was transparent, the government would have consulted the association in the process. The paper says officers withdrawn under the plan would continue to get their salaries as they cannot be sent to the surplus pool because under the law their cadre cannot be changed.

The association says the downsizing will not affect DMG officers because they are already occupying seats double than their due in the province.

Describing expenditures cut, the association suggests, each DMG official be given one vehicle and all official vehicles be converted to CNG.

Funds on repair of official residences of DMG officers and sizes of the official residence should be reduced and extra land should be sold or utilised for some useful purpose.

All non-APUG officers should be repatriated to their parent departments and their posts be given to provincial officers.

All special packages such as 'project allowance' must be abolished forthwith. The government could millions through completing development projects in stipulated time and computerising medical bills as DMG officers draw millions under this head.

Foreign trips of senior officers must be curtailed and every trip should be seen with reference to 'cost-benefit' ratio.

Dual nationality officers should be dismissed as they have to visit their families settled abroad through 'generated resources'.DMG officers going abroad for training or higher education on a more than four-month leave must be sent back to the Establishment Division. All DMG/APUG officers must be repatriated to the federal government upon joining NIPA or the National Management Course. The government must ban frequent transfers of officers for it wastes huge funds under the transfer grants.

Erratic posting (juniors posted on higher seats) should be done away with and officers failing to meet targets should be punished accordingly.

All officers on special duty from the DMG must be surrendered to the federal government because they use provincial resources without doing anything.

By imparting training of PCS/PSS officers at MPDD, the Punjab government can save millions. No government office should be in rented buildings and a Rs30,000 'utilities allowance' per month given to provincial secretaries must be withdrawn.

All field officers should motivate philanthropists to help the government in education and health and unutilised land of the government should be used.

Rates for TA/DA and utility bills must be decreased.

The association says it had given a set of revenue reforms to the Punjab government in 2008 and 2009 which could generate Rs50 billion per year. The association requested the chief minister to give audience to it at the earliest to know the reality.