our correspondent
\nPeshawar
\nChief Minister Mahmood Khan has directed the departments to ensure implementation on the development and public welfare schemes under time-tag in the remaining two-and-a-half-years of his government.
\nHe termed the remaining period crucial to his government. A number of schemes are ready for implementation which would be inaugurated by the Prime Minister from time to time; therefore, he asked the relevant quarters to prepare themselves up to the mark.
\nMahmood Khan said this while presiding over a meeting of the provincial cabinet that decided the superannuation age of the government servants reverting back to 60 years from the previously decided 63-years.
\nThe cabinet meeting attended by Ministers, Advisors, Special Assistants to Chief Minister, Chief Secretary, Additional Chief Secretary, Administrative Secretaries took for debate a 14-agenda item and made a number of decisions including the government servants\u2019 retirement age as 60-years.
\nAddressing the cabinet, Mahmood Khan Good governance and transparency are the hallmarks of his government and no compromise whatsoever would be made, he added.
\nThe public sector institutions should use information technology for speedy response generation including introducing e-summary system.
\nThe important summary should get approval in a week. He further directed to introduce Patwar\/Revenue System including transferring patwaris at divisional level from one district to another.
\nThe tendering and bidding system for construction is satisfactory but the system should be further improved and made transparent.
\nHe directed to ensure quality governance at district level asking to give special responsibility to DCs and DPOs and asked for reports of their initiatives. He also directed to install CCTV cameras at all forests check-posts to discourage illegal timber trafficking.
\nHe directed the Provincial Ministers to ensure their presence to two days weekly and visit their respective areas to address to the public complaints and problems.
\nAll departments should at least identify one mega project to be undertaken through public-private partnership.
\nBriefing the media on cabinet decisions, Provincial Ministers Kamran Bangash, Shahram Tarakai and Taimur Jhagra said that the cabinet thoroughly debated the pensioner reforms and decided to take the members of the government employees association on board in the final decision-making a 4-member committee was formed to be headed by Provincial Minister for Finance Taimur Jhagra, Minister Education Shahram Khan Tarakai, Minister for Local Government Akbar Ayub Khan and Minister Labour Shaukat Ali Yousafzai.
\nThe committee will interact with the Government Employees Association before the final decision on the new pensionary system.
\nMahmood Khan called upon the people to pay no heed to rumors. No one would be deprived of pensionary benefits, he added.
\nThe cabinet approved the draft law for \u201cInnovation Endowment Fund\u201d of Rs.100 million for the Science and Technology in order to promote research and development in science and technology, support product development, efficient use of manpower, bring innovation in science and technology etc in the province.
\nThe cabinet also agreed to make amendments in the Peshawar Development Authority Land Acquisition Act making a formula for the acquisition of 2-lac kanal land on the pattern of partnership between the government and the land owners.
\nUnder the formula, the owners of 4-kanal land will be entitled for 1-kanal developed plot. However, the payment of the development charges would be worked out by the authority.
\nThe cabinet also approved to transfer 142-kanal of land of Golf-Course Kabal Swat to Higher Education for the establishment of a university and Female Campus. 101-kanal land of the Golf-Club Swat would be allotted to establish the University Engineering and technology Swat.
\nThe remaining 40-kanal land of the Golf-Club would be transferred for the establishment of Paeds hospital and 2-kanal land for Recuse-1122.
\nThe cabinet also agreed to the necessary amendment in the schedule-VIII of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mines and Minerals Act 2017.
\nThe cabinet also approved the screening test of ETEA for employment in order to ensure merit and transparency. However, if ETEA does not have the capacity then the ETEA will write cogent reason to the relevant department and issue NOC so that credible private testing agency could be hired for the purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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