THE Pakistan Engineering Council established in 1976 is not fulfilling its professional responsibilities.

Besides engineering education, the PEC also has to regulate consultants, contractors and professional engineers’ registration while facilitating the engineering sector.

It is also the PEC’s job to ensure that only engineers are hired for engineering roles and that all engineering firms — private or public — should be registered with the PEC and follow all of its by-laws.

We have witnessed several incidents during the past few years when non-engineers were hired as heads of engineering firms.

Government-owned firms like PEDO and KPOGCL are not even registered with the PEC or fulfilling any of its requirements.

It is because of this failure on the part of the PEC that government organisations faced problems and suffered losses on a number of occasions.

I ask the PEC to start performing its duty and ensure that PEC by-laws are applied all across Pakistan on all private and public organisations.

Basheer Khan
Islamabad

Published in Dawn, January 24th, 2020