ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: The public works department (PWD) has refused to accommodate the CDA’s maintenance department employees, who are likely to become surplus when the PWD takes over the government buildings’ maintenance responsibility after the local government elections in Islamabad, a senior CDA official told this scribe.

The 3,000 maintenance department employees of the CDA are stated to be worried about their future as the PWD has told the CDA that it would not accommodate its surplus staff.

The CDA has formed a committee of senior officials to sort out the issue in consultation with the PWD.

However, the final decision about the fate of these employees would be made by the ministries of works and interior.

The official said in the proposed local government system, the authority would only deal in the planning and development of land besides some other projects.

He said that the existing CDA board would be expanded to include the incumbent district Nazim of Islamabad as its member.—Reporter