Featured Plan proposed for Pakistan Steel Mills a disaster: CJP

[maithil]

CJ Gulzar Ahmed says PSM cannot fire all employees

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed annoyance over Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) administration and ordered the authorities to submit a brief report about the mills. The top court also directed the government to submit its plan about running Pakistan Steel Mill (PSM) on public-private partnership.

A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Gulzar Ahmed issued these directions while hearing the PSM employees’ case.

The court said to the federation’s counsel what you are going to do would lead to disaster. It further said that you are dealing this important matter poorly.

Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed remarked that according to the government lawyer Section 11 of Industrial Relations Act, 2012 will create obstacles in this matter but in our view it will be the main hurdle. The CJ said that if the employees were fired, there would be five thousand more cases.

He said that due to this plan there would be more than 500 cases in the courts and the government would have to give jobs to the same people.

The Additional Attorney General informed that the cabinet has not yet decided to lay off all employees of PSM. Justice Ijaz-Ul-Ahsan said that according to the plan, the government would lay off 95 per cent employees and make fresh recruitment on contract basis. At present 320 cases of PSM are pending before the High Courts and 29 in Supreme Court, he added.

The PSM counsel informed the court that Rs40 billion are required for the implementation of Public-Private Partnership plan. The court sought report from PSM and adjourned the hearing for four weeks due to the ailment of defense counsel Kamran Murtaza.

On the last hearing, the court had barred the federal government from selling the PSM land in order to pay gratuity and provident funds to its former employees. The retired employees of the PSM in 2017 had filed a petition before the SHC and contended that they were not being paid their gratuity, leave encashment and provident funds since 2013.

They submitted that gratuity and provident funds of the retired employees have not been paid by the PSM despite the court orders. They submitted that PSM had leased its land worth billion of rupees but the retired employees were not paid their pension benefits and other dues.

https://nation.com.pk/17-Jul-2020/plan-proposed-for-pakistan-steel-mills-a-disaster-cjp

 

[IceCold]

How is the government bound to submit a plan to court on how to run day to day affairs?
This is interference at its peak.
When these institutions were eaten from within, where was the SC of Pakistan? All the sudden they woke up.

 

[flameboard]

Why not channel CPEC steel needs through Pakistan Steel Mills to generate orders, and cash flow for the company?

Competition with private local industries should be encouraged once PSM is on its feet.

 

[maithil]

The Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the federal government’s initiative to revamp the ailing Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) and warned the plan might lead to a disaster.

“Whatever the PSM management is planning will only create hurdles since it will burden the courts more as 5,000 cases will come to the courts and the management eventually has to reinstate majority of them (the employees),” said Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed who had taken up a case relating to the PSM’s financial health.

“The PSM management has neither a proper plan or nor do they have any idea what they are up to,” the chief justice said while pointing towards the counsel for the PSM Nayyar Abbas Rizvi. The Supreme Court could not come to the support of the mills all the time, the chief justice said.

“Your plan is to terminate [the services of] 95 per cent of the employees and then appoint new employees on a contract basis,” said Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan, another member of the bench.

He recalled that currently 320 cases were pending at different high courts while 29 were in the Supreme Court.

Mr Rizvi informed the court that Rs40 billion would be needed to run the PSM on a public-private partnership basis.

Additional Attorney General Chaudhry Amir Rehman said the cabinet had not decided to remove all the employees of the PSM.

The court however sought a comprehensive report on the revival of the steel mill and postponed further proceedings for a month.

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[Falcon26]

Pakistan is a circus.

 

[arjunk]

'NooOOOo how could you make something productive and not full of corrupt retards? Must.... Reinstate... Crippling... Corruption...'

 

[Amaa'n]

Pakistan is a circus.

let me rephrase it for you & others, It is the System that is running the country is "Circus" , NOT the country itself

 

[Bouncer]

How is the government bound to submit a plan to court on how to run day to day affairs?
This is interference at its peak.
When these institutions were eaten from within, where was the SC of Pakistan? All the sudden they woke up.

Same SC scuttled the deal Musharaf made to sell PSM. Since that time Gov of Pak has lost 100s of billions in bailouts, salaries, pensions and general corruption. That was a good deal at that time which was lost because our courts are hell bent on staying the media instead of providing much needed relief to the common man. Only if common poor people of this country were able to generate headlines maybe the courts would listen.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Drama Bazi, ask the Supreme court to pay salaries and loses

The constant interference by Judges against Pakistani State must be stopped

 

[Safriz]

Why CJP has to poke his nose in every government matter?
Is this democracy?

 

[airmarshal]

Laanat on this Supreme Court and its judges.

It was them who recently ordered to open the markets on Eid and Corona spread exponentially.

It was them who did not let Steel Mills privatize when it was in profit. Now its a rusting trash.

It was them who ploughed Pakistan to make it pay $6 billion to Reko Diq mining case.

If they stop interfering in every administrative and execute manner, Pakistan will be a much better place. They act big but they cant bring lawyers to justice who attacked a hospital. They cant reform their own institute but want to flex muscle all the time.

 

[Dr. Abdul Basit]

The court is right in a way, in our country there is no firing of a government employee even if he/she has committed a huge negligence let alone not performing his/her duty which is a norm, you fire an employee he goes to court, gets a stay order, and the case is either never decided to decided in the favour of the employee. This practice should be discouraged by passing laws (sorry for my ignorance of any legislation if that already exists), I have witnessed employees funded by UN and other agencies but working with the government have reached courts and got theirselves stay orders despite the fact their positions + qualifications cannot be even justified.

 

[Psychic]

Pakistan Steel Mills is a white elephant.
We need to get rid of it ASAP.

Court shouldn't interfere in this matter, it isn't under their jurisdiction. Shaukat Aziz tried to sell it to a Russian investor at a good price when he was the PM but the court ordered a halt to that deal; since then, it has cost the nation billions of rupees.