February 15, 2007	Thursday	Muharram 26, 1428

KARACHI, Feb 14: The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) has decided to undertake organisational restructuring to improve its efficiency by fully utilising the workforce and saving cost of operations.

New TCP chairman Abdul Malik said here on Wednesday that the corporation was earlier working on the old pattern of management where one department was heavily burdened while other was sitting idle.

"We are shifting from traditional pyramid structure to the project approach which will help reduce work-load on one department and utilising the workforce of temporarily idle department", he added.

All staff will be trained to take up assignments of every department on rotation basis.

For example, an officer or a person in import department will be able to handle work of shipping or at the godown after proper training, Malik said.

This strategy will ensure full manpower support to departments during peak work-load; optimum use of manpower; circulation of personnel for experience of various departments and operations; human resource development; proper record keeping and post-operation analysis.

The TCP chairman said the new approach would also help reduce operational cost by at least 10 to 20 per cent.

He pointed out that a "commodity cell" has already been created in the TCP for study and monitoring of a variety of items which are dealt by the corporation.

The cell will keep itself abreast with market developments, data and analysis of TCP's own commodity operations. —APP