Financial discipline: KMC to close down dept accounts

KARACHI: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) decided on Tuesday to immediately close down all the accounts of its various departments. Henceforth, all payments will be made only through the signature of deputy mayor Dr Arshad Vohra and KMC municipal commissioner. No payments will now be made with the signature of departmental heads, neither will any accounts be operated by them. These decisions were made in a meeting chaired by Vohra and attended by the municipal commissioner Dr Badar Jameel, financial adviser Khalid Mehmood Shaikh, works and services director-general Niaz Soomro and other KMC departmental heads. “We need to search for new income resources and set up priorities to maintain financial discipline in the organisation,” said Vohra, urging departmental heads to prepare new schemes and the law department to remove the hurdles in the enhancement of revenue resources.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 5^th, 2016.