Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Tuesday ordered expediting the process of recruitment of lecturers through K-P Public Service Commission to overcome the shortage of teaching staff in government colleges.
A mechanism shall also be devised to appoint teaching staff on temporary basis on reasonable remunerations to meet the purpose, if the need arose.
He further directed to open all the newly established government colleges for teaching as soon as possible.
He issued these directives while chairing the provincial cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
The meeting, aside from cabinet members, was also attended by the provincial chief secretary, additional chief secretary, senior member Board of Revenue and administrative secretaries of various government departments.
Mahmood Khan further directed that full funds should be released for the construction of roads and other ongoing development projects in the merged districts so as to complete these public welfare oriented schemes within the stipulated time.
The CM ordered the government departments to immediately implement the decision with regard to increasing the minimum monthly wages up to Rs26,000 and warned that no leniency would be tolerated in this regard.
The cabinet approved the appointment of Syeda Rabia Sultana to fill the casual vacancy of independent director in Water & Sanitation Services Company (WSSC) Abbottabad. Similarly, the cabinet also approved the name of Muhammad Rehan Yousaf for appointment as chief executive officer, Water & Sanitation Services Company (WSSC) Abbottabad.
The provincial cabinet also granted approval to transfer of eight kanal and 10 marla state land situated at Kalaya Orakzai, which is the property of the district administration, in the name of Home & Tribal Affairs Department for the establishment of district police officer (DPO) office, CTD office and Special Branch office at Kalaya.
Furthermore, the cabinet also accorded approval for availing Project Readiness Financing (PRF) loan for ADB-assisted ADP scheme ‘Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Water Resources Development Project’.
Similarly, the cabinet also approved the transfer of two kanal state land located in C&W Colony at Tehsil Batkhela, District Malakand, owned by the C&W Department in the name of Emergency Rescue Services (Rescue-1122), for establishing Rescue-1122 station there.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 20th, 2022.
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