Peshawar
\nKP Chief Secretary Dr Shehzad Khan Bangash has said that the purpose of Khuli Kachehri (Open Court) is to facilitate the access of citizens to the government offices so that their problems and grievances are taken into consideration.
\nHe said this while presiding over a district review meeting and addressing all the Divisional Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners in Peshawar on Monday.
\nThe meeting was attended by all the Administrative Secretaries, Divisional Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners of all the districts and other concerned officials.
\nDirector Performance Management and Reforms Unit Capt. (R) Abdur Rehman presented a report on Khuli Kachehri to the participants of the meeting. Captain (Rtd) Abdur Rehman informed the meeting that 172 Khuli Kachehris have been held at district level during the last two months amongst which 92 Khuli Kachehris were held under the chairmanship of Deputy Commissioners.
\nThe participants were further informed that 28 Khuli Kachehri were held online, 2 for women, 3 for minority community and 1 exclusively for farmers. On the occasion, Dr Bangash said that the KP government is trying to solve the problems of the people at their doorsteps.
\nHe strongly stressed that any kind of laxity or negligence in solving the problems of the people will not be tolerated. He directed all the concerned officers to focus on resolving the problems of the people in the light of law and on merit providing satisfactory answers.
\nDirector Performance Management and Reforms Unit Capt. (R) Abdur Rehman, referring to the regulatory inspections taking place across the province, informed the participants that a total of 68,995 units were inspected in November and 79,384 units in December.
\nDuring the inspection of businesses in last 2 months, fines of Rs. 30.2 million were imposed on the units who were found violating the law. Similarly, FIRs were also registered against 2,552 units \/ businesses in November and December.
\nGiving further details to the meeting, Director PMRU said that during the last two months, 196 persons have been sent to jail for violating the law, while 5,498 units \/ businesses have been sealed and warnings have been issued to 27,177 units.
\nThe day-to-day operations under the Good Governance Strategy were also highlighted. Briefing the meeting, Director Performance Management and Reforms Unit Captain (Rtd) Abdur Rehman said that 4,108 kanals of land has been retrieved during the operation against encroachments in the last two months. Chlorination of 591 water tanks and 662 water quality tests have been carried out.
\nAction was taken against 701 crushing plants. 366 public places, playgrounds, 219 bus stands and terminals have also been improved throughout the province. 3,045 illegal speed breakers and 3,119 illegal billboards have been removed across the province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Peshawar KP Chief Secretary Dr Shehzad Khan Bangash has said that the purpose of Khuli Kachehri (Open Court) is to facilitate the access of citizens to the government offices so that their problems and grievances are taken into consideration. He said this while presiding over a district review meeting and addressing all the Divisional Commissioners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-237986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n