Reforms Agenda: Pakistan Post to improve services

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Communications and Postal Services informed that the prime minister had approved a reforms agenda for Pakistan Post to improve its services. The committee, which met here under the chairmanship of member National Assembly Sufyan Yusuf, was informed that the Pakistan Post was facing a deficit of Rs. 6.5 billion but after implementation of the reforms agenda, it was expected to manage this loss by 2017-18. The ministry officials informed that an action plan for the implementation of the agenda had also been finalised and within the next six months major reforms would be introduced in the department. They said they were endeavouring to establish public-private partnership for the reforms agenda, adding that the post office of G-8 Markaz had been set up as a model post office and soon other post offices would be modernised on similar lines.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 14^th, 2016.