Pakistan Agriculture Research Council’s Employees seems very much concerned about the future of institution under the new management, as they believe that it is being destroyed and three of the key position-holder employees have written letter to high ups to save the institution.
It has been reliably learnt that Mohammad Azhar Qureshi who is working as consultant with PARC has written a letter to President and also has sent a copy to Prime Minister with the consent of other employees of the department.
Especially the consultants are of the view that PARC will be totally destroyed under the current management as it is closing all-important projects without any reason.
Along with Azhar Qureshi three other consultants have also written letters to President and PM telling them about the worst situation of the institution.
The letter reads, “Currently, there is an extremely pathetic state of affairs at the organization. Almost all the research and development projects of great economic importance have been recklessly bulldozed on the pretext of budgetary constraints. As for example, the Pak-China hybrid cotton collaborative project, Establishment of Benazir Bhutto Agricultural Research Station, Neelibar Agricultural Research Station, Bheera Agricultural R&D Station, On-farm research & development and value addition of the dates, Gender and Social Development Directorate, Benazir Bhutto Directorate of Cottage Industry, Establishment of PARC TV Channel for farmers and almost all the farmers’ linked field based activities have been irresponsibly thrashed”.
It is pertinent to mention here that Pak-China hybrid cotton was a very important project and was going to impact country’s economy by $10 billion per annum. It has also earlier reported that the project was scrapped just to benefit some blue-eyed companies.
At present an environment of looking busy and doing nothing has been created at PARC in the name of so-called National Research Agenda as an invention of the Acting Chairman, reads the letter written to country head. It is also mentioned in the letter that selling of 63 animals of rare breed from Bajuar and Swat merely for Rs 1.8 million by the acting management is another eye opener and indicator of the disorganization, mismanagement and corruption causing huge losses to the Organisation.
It has been reliably learnt that Mohammad Azhar Qureshi who is working as consultant with PARC has written a letter to President and also has sent a copy to Prime Minister with the consent of other employees of the department.
Especially the consultants are of the view that PARC will be totally destroyed under the current management as it is closing all-important projects without any reason.
Along with Azhar Qureshi three other consultants have also written letters to President and PM telling them about the worst situation of the institution.
The letter reads, “Currently, there is an extremely pathetic state of affairs at the organization. Almost all the research and development projects of great economic importance have been recklessly bulldozed on the pretext of budgetary constraints. As for example, the Pak-China hybrid cotton collaborative project, Establishment of Benazir Bhutto Agricultural Research Station, Neelibar Agricultural Research Station, Bheera Agricultural R&D Station, On-farm research & development and value addition of the dates, Gender and Social Development Directorate, Benazir Bhutto Directorate of Cottage Industry, Establishment of PARC TV Channel for farmers and almost all the farmers’ linked field based activities have been irresponsibly thrashed”.
It is pertinent to mention here that Pak-China hybrid cotton was a very important project and was going to impact country’s economy by $10 billion per annum. It has also earlier reported that the project was scrapped just to benefit some blue-eyed companies.
At present an environment of looking busy and doing nothing has been created at PARC in the name of so-called National Research Agenda as an invention of the Acting Chairman, reads the letter written to country head. It is also mentioned in the letter that selling of 63 animals of rare breed from Bajuar and Swat merely for Rs 1.8 million by the acting management is another eye opener and indicator of the disorganization, mismanagement and corruption causing huge losses to the Organisation.
