RAWALPINDI, May 10: The Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) has made a reshuffle in its supervisory staff to improve its inspection services and curb corruption, it has been learnt.

As many as 34 employees, mostly superintendents and supervisors, have been transferred from their present stations of duty to other places.

It had been learnt that supervisors and inspectors had been working on their present positions/stations for several years and some of them were allegedly involved in corruption. There had also been public complaints in this regard.

The employees, who had been reshuffled, are 18 sanitary supervisors, six building inspectors and 10 employees of the establishment.

The sanitary supervisors whose stations of duty have been changed include Tahir Qasim, transferred from Gawalmandi to Bank Road, Haider Road, Murree Road, Mall Road; Tariq Aziz from Saddar Bazaar to Gawalmandi; Abdul Hameed from Kashmir Road, Kamran Market, Adamjee Road, Bank Road, Haider Road and Mall Road to Saddar Bazaar; Tanvir Akhtar from Bank Road, Haider Road, Mall Road to Allahabad, Churharpal; Shabir Jamali from Tench Bhatta to Peshawar Road; Abdul Hameed from Kamalabad to Allama Iqbal Colony; Tauqeer Hussain from GHQ Area, Tamizuddin Road, Kashmir Road to Naseerabad, British Homes; Mehboob Ali from R.A. Bazaar, Qasim Market and Parade Lane to Dhoke Chaudhrian; Nasir Hussain from Mughalabad, Factory Quarters, Adra to R.A. Bazaar; Raja Asif from Azizabad to Peshawar Road and Dhoke Gujaran; Humayun Shah from Dhoke Chaudhrian, Allama Iqbal Colony, Dhoke Syedan and Quaid-i-Azam Colony to Azizabad; Wali Mohammad from Peshawar Road, Dhoke Gujaran to Kamalabad; Nisar Ahmad from Peshawar Road to Westridge Bazaar; Amjad Ali from Race Course Scheme, Westridge Bazaar to Peshawar Road; Maqboolur Rehman from Peshawar Road to Westridge City Road; Malik Hussain from Naseerabad, Qasimabad, British Homes, Golra Mor to GHQ Area.

The building inspectors include Ali Murtaza Shah from Ward No 7 to Gawalmandi, Saddar upto Raja Akram Road; Malik Mohammad Rashid from ward no 10 to ward no 8; Raja Arshad Mehmood from ward no 8 to ward no 9; Fayaz Khan from ward no 9 to ward no 10; Raza Shah from Westridge 123 to ward no 6 and Mohammad Zia from Saddar to ward no 7.

Similarly, those reshuffled among the administration staff include assistant accountant Waqarul Hassan, who has been appointed as office superintendent, establishment; the present office superintendent Sarwar Mehmood has been assigned the duties of office superintendent legal for both the cantonments; Khalid Mehmood transferred to land branch as record keeper; Shamim Ahmad transferred from engineering to land branch; Saifullah, presently working in the revenue branch, transferred to engineering branch and Mohammad Ashraf from land to engineering branch.

When asked about the reshuffle, the cantonment executive officer, Khawaja Iftikhar Mir, said the step had been taken to improve services and working of different sections.

He denied that these employees had been involved in embezzlement. Action will be taken against the employees concerned if any such case is detected, he added.