ISLAMABAD, July 10: The project of computerisation of Capital Development Authority (CDA) is in doldrums due to the negligence of the staff, a source told Dawn here on Wednesday.

The project was launched two and a half years ago at a cost of Rs4 million. The software was made by a private firm.

The source said the information, which was earlier stored in the server, had been washed intentionally to keep the people, seeking information about their matters, dependent on the CDA employees.

“If the complete information is stored, those CDA officials, who were allotted a number of plots through illegal means, will be exposed,” the source said.

He said the authority had appointed a computer consultant at a monthly salary of Rs15,000, who left for abroad without completing the project and intimating anybody.

Later, an electrical engineer, who was working with the Capital Hospital, was given the charge of the computer section.

But, he could not make the project a success, the source added.

Meanwhile, the new in-charge demanded that the computer section should be made a full-fledge directorate with the induction of more technical staff.

The demand was presented at the CDA Board meeting which held here on Wednesday.

However, the CDA chairman, Mir Laiq Shah, expressed dissatisfaction over pace of computerisation process and directed the in-charge to appraise him of two and a half years performance of the section.

Responding to another proposal regarding promotion of storekeeper and dispenser of the Capital Hospital, the meeting decided that rules of the Punjab government should be followed for their promotion as there were no such rules available with the CDA for the promotion from such posts.

The meeting decided to constitute a committee to look into the financial, technical and environmental aspects of proposed plan of chairlift at Margalla Hills.

To a demand regarding approval of a Christian Housing Society in Zone-II, the meeting decided that the director-general environment and director estate management-II will formulate modalities for the society then it will be approved by the CDA board.

It has been decided that lease of the CDA shops, which have been sublet in sector G-7/3, should not be renewed.