PESHAWAR, April 14: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has devised a policy to streamline disposing of condemned or surplus vehicles by making it a permanent feature. The administration department, being custodian of provincial government assets, has notified a circular to administrative heads of all the departments, stating that auction of condemned official vehicles will be held on 25th of each month.

All departments will deliver their auction-able vehicles to the transport section of administration department on or before 10th of each month,enabling it to offer it in the next auction.

The administration department, as per the policy, will not accept any delivery after 10th of each month to ensure elimination of backing, parking and dumping of vehicles prone to decay.

All departments, according to the circular, will ensure that condemned vehicles are delivered along with proper condemnation certificate, registration book, all accessories and number plates.

The administration department will not accept any vehicle with deficiency in papers except with cogent explanatory note from the department concerned, according to the circular.

“It will ensure that operational entities in government departments and institutions complete their job in time and are made responsible to their controlling officers for delay, lapse and deficiency,” it said.

According to the policy, the condemned vehicles received for auction, will be made available for inspection by general public and potential bidders from 22nd to 24th of each month during office hours.

In case the department fails to deliver the condemned or surplus vehicles to administration department as per policy instructions and within the time frame, the responsibility for its devaluation and depreciation will rest with the department concerned.

The auctions of condemned and surplus official vehicles were done in line with instructions of the federal government issued on May 14, 1997, an official said. Subsequently, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government conducted 32 rounds of auctions from 1997 to July 2007 and generated Rs254.451 million by selling out 1,258 vehicles and 559 motorbikes.

However, July 2010 onward eight rounds of auction were conducted for disposing of 414 vehicles and 109 motorcycles, which generated Rs125.354 million for the government. Of these total auction proceeds Rs119.385 million ended up at provincial kitty, while Rs5.969 million went to the federal government, the official added.

He said that administration department had also conducted a survey in mid Dec last year and found out that 50 off road vehicles were parked on the premises of various departments.

Complete list and department-wise details were communicated to the departments concerned.

“The main objective of the survey was that these vehicles have outlived their utility and have been condemned and taken off the road. Currently they are parked unattended and are prone to wear, tear and decay,” the official remarked.

The departments concerned, he said, had been requested to direct their staff to handover those vehicles to the transport section along with condemnation certificates and relevant details, so that they could be put to open auction.

“Moreover, at present there are 54 vehicles available in the General Car Parking, which have been received or handed over to the transport section since 2000,” he added.

The authorities concerned had been requested to intimate the exact status of these vehicles i.e. confiscation or superdari and then those would be put to open auction, the official said.