Reduction in TEVTA expenditures announced
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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Minister for Technical Education, Industries and Commerce Mohammad Adnan Jalil while following the principles of austerity measures, took an important step to reduce the monthly unnecessary expenditures in Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA), and ordered its implementation in letter and spirit.
In this regard, it has been decided to save a total amount worth Rs42 lakh per month.
In view of the mentioned austerity measures, this initiative will benefit the government treasury to about Rs5 crores per annum saving.
This decision was taken on Tuesday in a high-level meeting regarding reform initiatives and rationalization in TEVTA, under the chairmanship Adnan Jalil, wherein all senior officers of the department participated.
During the meeting, it was decided that for the preparation of skilled manpower in the province, the technical education sector will be restructured according to the requirements of the present day global market demands.
It was also decided that TEVTA’s will also be restructured as per the requirements, and few sectors in organogram will be merged for better service delivery and strengthening of training colleges, institutions by provision of additional staff.
In this regard, final approval will be taken in the upcoming board meeting.
The caretaker provincial minister took an exemplary initiative by voluntarily reducing his 10 per cent POL authorized expenses as chairman of TEVTA Board and also other officers of the institution decided to follow this decision accordingly.
It is worth mentioning that the same reduction will be an additional cut on authorised POL than the already 35 per cent cut made by the finance department on fuel expenditures.
This step will save Rs50,000 per month to the public exchequer, said the minister.
On the instructions of the provincial minister, TEVTA officers decided to reduce their traveling allowance expenses by 10 per cent, which will save Rs50,000 per month.
Similarly, after the expiry of the period of the emergent staff hired for the current partial period, it was decided to take these services from the existing permanent staff, which will save Rs21 lakh per month.
Moreover, the provincial minister also issued orders to transfer TEVTAs central office from a rented building to department’s owned building at Hayatabad, Peshawar, which will save Rs1.35 lakh on a monthly basis.
During the meeting, it was decided that through the rationalization and restructuring of TEVTA, the staff in its head office will be kept as per the requirement and the additional staff services will be transferred to the training institutes of the authority, which will not only improve the training performance of these educational institutes but rather, this initiative will save about Rs2.85 per month in financial expenses.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2023.