CM directs secretaries to achieve governance targets

Govt links civil servants’ performance to completion of uplift schemes

LAHORE:

The Punjab government has decided to link the performance of civil servants with the completion of development works.

Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said administrative secretaries should ensure timely and proper utilisation of development funds to achieve desired results.

Delivering a keynote speech to all secretaries conference here on Monday, the chief minister issued guidelines for the early completion of development schemes, achievement of good governance targets and price control. He also directed them to make a decision on the summary or file within two days positively.

An implementation mechanism will be determined to ensure speedy disposal of the summary or file at the Chief Minister's Office, he added.

Similarly, he highlighted the tenure postings will be ensured so that the officers could perform and deliver duties wholeheartedly. Alongside this, the personal issues of officers will also be resolved on priority, he mentioned.

The proposal to restore the magisterial system for price control was also considered and Elahi ordered a feasible mechanism for controlling prices.

The secretaries' offices will be open to the public from 9:30am to 11am daily, he said and underscored that the common man's problems should be solved in their cities and they should not have to go all the way to Lahore for this.

"Together we have to fulfil the mission of the welfare of the nation. I want the bureaucrats of my team to serve the people with peace and satisfaction," he said.

"Officers and employees are my strength,” the CM maintained.

He said welfare projects will be implemented as a result of collective wisdom. Whatever project is started, all efforts should be made to complete it wholeheartedly, he stressed. More work should be done in south Punjab than before, he added.

The CM said that the scope of land centres will be expanded up to the Kanungo level to benefit farmers. A lot of reforms could be introduced in the archaic prison system with good administrative planning and firm intention, he said and announced that the teachers' training programs will be made more efficient and effective to improve educational standards.

Elahi disclosed that a practical Act would be introduced to curb drugs in educational institutions and, the heads of the educational institutions will also be held responsible for the use of drugs by their students.

“I will personally monitor all the issues myself," he concluded.

Punjab Chief Secretary Abdullah Khan Sumbal said the secretaries and heads of institutions will strive for public welfare with all their hearts and every resource will be used to speed up the development of the people.

Secretaries of the south Punjab Secretariat from Multan and Bahawalpur participated through a video link while the secretaries of local government and industries departments attended the meeting from the field.

Former federal minister Moonis Elahi, Principal Secretary to CM Muhammad Khan Bhatti, SMBR Zahid Akhtar Zaman, Additional Chief Secretary Asadullah Khan, former principal secretary to CM GM Sikandar, along with the secretaries of 42 departments, attended the meeting.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, September 20^th, 2022.