Drugs-free education institutes stressed

PESHAWAR:

Advisor to Chief Minister on Excise and Narcotics Control Khaliqur Rehman Tuesday called for expanding the scope of intelligence-based operations against drugs and to make education institutions drugs-free.

He was presiding over a high-level meeting to review performance and recovery made by all District Excise Offices during last five months. The meeting also reviewed in depth ongoing reforms to further improve the performance of the department.

The advisor directed provision of all kinds of facilities related to the excise department to the taxpayers, vehicle owners and general public.

The meeting was given a detailed briefing on the illegal vehicles seized and their legal process while a detailed discussion was held on ongoing reforms in the department, online token tax, improvement in vehicle registration system, vehicle number plates, GIS based system for property tax etc. were discussed in detail.

The CM's aide instructed to expedite the work on reforms to enhance the efficiency of the department and also issued instructions to DG Excise for better monitoring of the performance of the department.

The meeting commended the performance of directors and ETOs for their good performance and directed others to improve their revenue recovery and meet the target.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 22^nd, 2021.