Roll up your sleeves
Islamabad: In today’s meeting, the federal cabinet also approved the action plan for the abolition of the Pakistan Public Works Department (Pak PWD) and decided to form a Pakistan Infrastructure Development Company to oversee federal development projects and the Asset And Facility Management Company for repair and maintenance works. The cabinet decided to hand over the federal government projects in the provinces to the relevant provincial departments. The cabinet decided the Asset and Facility Management Company would be established to carry out the repair and maintenance work currently being done by the Pak PWD. After their classification, the PWD employees would be transferred to relevant ministries and a golden handshake scheme would also be introduced for them. Moreover, the cabinet also decided to computerise the record of all PWD properties and called for completing the transition process within two weeks. On the housing ministry’s recommendation, the meeting also approved transferring the building of Federal Lodges-II in Peshawar to the Election Commission of Pakistan for establishing the permanent office of the provincial Election Commission. The meeting approved the repatriation of seven accountant members of Appellate Tribunal Inland Revenue to FBR and the appointment of 14 officers in the tribunal benches, as proposed by the ministry. On the health ministry’s recommendation, the cabinet approved the appointment of Joint Secretary Muhammad Iqbal as Administrator of the National Council for Homeopathy.
