Mahmood Khan takes notice of delay in issuance of NOCs for private sector
PESHAWAR
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has taken stern notice of unnecessary delay in the issuance of NOCs for private sector investment including the construction of high rise buildings and directed the concerned authorities for visible steps to ensure the issuance of such NOCs within the given timelines as prescribed in the relevant rules/by-laws and to extend maximum facilitation to private investors to encourage them for maximum investment in the province.
He was chairing a meeting of Local Government and Rural Development Department held here on Monday. Besides Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dr. Kazim Niaz and Additional Chief Secretary Shahab Ali Shah, Administrative Secretaries of concerned departments, Commissioner Peshawar, Director General Peshawar Development Authority and other senior officials also attended the meeting.
The chief minister said that the provincial government had promulgated laws and put in place regularity regime for attracting maximum private sector investment adding that implementation of those laws in letter and spirit is the foremost responsibility of the concerned departments and entities.
He warned that in case of any negligence, or any unnecessary hurdle for private investment, the responsible ones would be taken to task and no one would be spared.
Expressing serious concerns on the performance of tehsil municipal Administrations and other subordinate entities of the local government department regarding the issuance of NOCs for commercial buildings; the chief minister said that hurdles were being created instead of facilitation for private investors at lower level which cannot be tolerated.
He termed ease of doing business and maximum facilitation to the investors as an integral part of his government vision to attract private investment and said that all the concerned departments and entities will have to ensure implementation of government’s vision.
Mahmood Khan maintained that the provincial government has made effective legislations to attract private sector investment with the aim to create maximum job opportunities for the people which are only possible when the investors are encouraged with maximum facilitation.
He made it clear that the relevant departments and entities are required to ensure cent percent implementation of those laws and rules to achieve the purpose for which they are meant adding that otherwise strict action would be initiated against the responsible ones.
Mahmood Khan made it crystal clear to all the concerned quarters that anything which effects governance in the province and causes to raise questions on the performance of his government would not be tolerated in any case adding that he needs work on ground instead of paper works and presentations.
He directed all the concerned quarters to ensure the issuance of licenses and NOCs within the stipulated time frame to the private investors who fulfill the criteria as prescribed in the regulatory regime and to straight away reject those cases which do not fulfill the prescribed criteria.
He directed the Chief Secretary to personally supervise all such matters, and directed the Local Government Department to submit a detailed report regarding the NOCs issued for private investment so far.
