‘New local bodies system will empower people’

The new local bodies system would empower people in the real sense and a new era of development would begin, Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Sardar Usman Buzdar said while presiding over a meeting on Thursday.

“The government will take the development process to the doorsteps of the people by transforming local bodies,” Buzdar vowed during the meeting.

On the occasion, the Local Government Department secretary briefed the participants about matters related to local bodies.

Addressing the meeting, the CM stated that local bodies had failed to solve public problems in the past, whereas the new local bodies system is in accordance with the public needs and powers would be devolved to the grassroots in the true sense.

The CM assured the participants that the new system would bring an end to the status quo and the local government representatives would be strengthened by it.

Usman Buzdar urges legislators to monitor relief measures

Buzdar said that the local bodies would not be allowed to be slack in the performance of their fundamental duties, particularly regarding sanitation.

“The streets and commercial areas should be kept neat and clean,” he stressed.

He added that modern machinery is being provided to the local bodies for maintaining cleanliness and the officials must ensure clearance of rainwater drains to prevent any inconvenience to the people. No negligence will be tolerated in this regard, the chief minister warned.

Provincial Ministers Raja Basharat, Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed and Dr Yasmin Rashid, Adviser Asif Mehmood, the chief secretary, Planning and Development Department chairman, PTI Central Punjab President Ijaz Chaudhry, PTI Northern Punjab President Sadaqat Ali Abbasi, Good Governance Committee Secretary Ijaz Hussain Manhas and others attended the meeting.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 11^th, 2020.