PTI's govt taking correct coarse

Pakistan1992

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
For some mysterious reason, the political pundits have become unreasonably impatient with the PTI government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and they want the changes promised by this party\'s leader to come into effect before sundown.

Imran Khan, probably, is the only leader in this country during the last fifty years who is not just willing but impatient to put in practice his rhetoric of empowering the common man and woman in the villages and towns throughout the country. His belief in the wisdom of the voter is unshakable and he genuinely believes that only empowering common Pakistanis can bring the needed positive change in the country.

To empower the ordinary citizen, the PTI government has brought the law of right to information. This law is the most modern law not just in this country or in Asia but the rest of the world as well. However, it will take some time for the people to use it for their benefit.

It will take the ordinary man and women some experience to understand that now instead of begging for information from government officials, they can demand it; and if their demand is not met, they can report it to a commission formed for the specific purpose of taking action against officials who resist imparting information to the members of public.

As the ordinary people get used to this new empowerment of getting the information they demand, it will immensely increase transparency in government matters such as financial matters, award of big contracts, allocations and utilization of funds. The law on the right to information of the common individuals will also bring a sense of responsibility among the politicians in government and high officials, for they will know that in many instances it will not be possible to veil their shabby deals and unmerited appointments or delays in providing necessary services to the public.

The PTI government has, also, almost completed the blueprints of an elected local body system which will take the concentration of power away from the provincial political set up and the officialdom in the sectariat and devolve it to the lowest levels of villages and towns. Funds and decisions of appointments of teachers, medical staff for primary schools and small hospitals will be given to the members of the local government. The elected members of local bodies will be able to decide on building local roads, streets, installing street lights, constructing and maintaining sewerage and potable water system, local parks.

Teachers will be careful to be present on their jobs and how and what they teach to the children.

To stay on their jobs, they will depend on the pleasure of the parents of these children instead of indifferent inspectors or deputy directors who rarely come for inspection and even if they visit schools, they are in hurry to leave. So will be the case with regards to local hospitals whose affairs will be managed by the locally elected councils: the staff there too will serve as long as the local population is pleased with their services. There will be no need for countless visits of the local activists to the provincial health directorate for begging the high officials there to change the medical staff which either is mostly absent, rude even when present and rarely concerned with the pain of patients. The locals will be able to fire such incompetent or apathetic staff.

Most of all, if the local government system is sincerely implemented it will change the thana culture. The police will not be able to bypass the local representatives and act illegally. Such complaints as corruption, taking or keeping people in illegal custody will be impossible to hide and as such not feasible for the police to practice, at least, not abrasively.

The PTI government is also working on an accountability bill which will establish an independent and powerful department to monitor and probe powerful politicians and influential bureaucrats in government. Even the chief minister of the province will be answerable to the said accountability commission.

The PTI leader Imran Khan most probably, and rightly so, believes that many modern democracies have been able to improve the
livesof their citizens by empowering the people to hold their politicians and government officials responsible for their actions and also giving the people autonomy regarding their local matters.

The critics while agreeing with PTI\'s goals, however, don\'t realise that this government is trying and has taken practical steps to bring fundamental changes in the way of governance. It wants to transform the many despots like the secretaries, the many deputy, additional, assistant secretaries and section officers in the provincial secretariat and officials of the directorates of revenue, education, health departments into becoming true civil servants and provide services to the people.

The PTI government in KP because of the particular situation in the province needs more time and encouragement as it puts measure for these fundamental changes instead of being unduly criticised for unavoidable delay.


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Pakistan1992

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Re: PTI govt\'s taking correct coarse

[h=2]Out of turn promotion of PS to CM denied[/h]
PESHAWAR (APP): The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has denied the news published in a section f the press regarding out of turn promotion to Muhammad Ishfaq Khan Principal Secretary to Chief Minister and clarified that no such out of turn promotion case is under process.
In a press release it has been stated that, \\\"in fact, for the promotion to BS-21, National Management Course is mandatory. However, the officers who attain the age of 58-years are exempted from such training. Furthermore, the suitability of an officer for promotion to BS-21 is determined by the Provincial Selection Board from amongst the panel of officers according to their seniority and after approval of the recommendations of the board by the competent authority, such promotion is granted\\\".

The case of the officer will be placed before the Provincial Selection Board along with other officers for consideration on merit for making necessary recommendations before submission of the case to the competent authority for his orders.
The impression given in the news that a group of officers was behind the propaganda campaign against the officer is also not correct as the promotion to BS-21 is made against the posts reserved under the share of concerned service group.

http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/42127/
 

Pakistan1992

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Crackdown against illegal occupants of hospital rooms

M. Haleem Asad
TIMERGARA: Medical Superintendent of the District Head Quarter Hospital Tahir Bashir ud Din on Wednesday said the hospital administration had launched a crackdown against the illegal occupants of the hospital quarters and rooms. Talking to media men at the

Timergara Press Club he said that the hospital rooms were occupied by outsiders instead of staff. \\\"We have so far vacated 28 rooms of such occupants,\\\" the MS said. He added that the hospital staff was made duty bound to wear uniform and ensure their presence during duty hours. The MS said that staff adjustment had been made to post the right man on the right job. Some of the staff members, he said were pressurizing him through local politicians. He stated that the hospital administration was committed to regularize the staff for duty and no compromise would be made. He said lower grade officials of the staff were posted on political grounds in the past. Those officials, he added, were didn\\\'t perform their duties well. He said that some of them had been abroad since long but they would not be spared. About the Dengue epidemic, the MS said that so far six patients had been admitted to a 12-bed ward specified for dengue patients. He further said that 18 rooms had also been specified for dengue patients to be used during emergencies.

Appeal for justice: A resident of Nawy Kaly Talash while speaking at a news conference at the Timergara Press Club on Wednesday demanded of the police high ups and Dir Lower administration to register a case against his rivals for injuring a woman of his family. He said that armed men on Sept, 14 broke into his house and tortured the residents while holding them hostage at gun point. He said his rivals also opened fire and injured a woman of his family who was admitted to the hospital. He said his rivals wanted to take possession of his house as there had been a dispute on its ownership.

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Pakistan1992

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Re: Crackdown against illegal occupants of hospital rooms

[h=2]DHQ Lakki Marwat in need of serious attention[/h]
Ghulam Mursalin Marwat
LAKKI MARWAT: A surprise inspection visit to DHQ Hospital by the district administration official exposed the false claims of the hospital\\\'s management regarding presence of doctors and paramedics and availability of other basic facilities. Additional Deputy Commissioner Pir Muhammad Mehsud paid the visit on the directives of Deputy Commissioner Syed Mujeebur Rehman following complaints of the public regarding the absence of doctors and paramedics from duty besides the lack of facilities for both patients and staffers.

Mehsud went to different departments of the hospital built at a cost of over Rs250 million and checked the attendance of physicians and other employees.
The posts of eye specialists and other doctors were vacant and only two technicians/paramedics were examining patients with eye related diseases in the eye department. The ENT department was locked and he was told that the department lacked doctors despite sanctioned posts.
Two doctors were busy examining patients in the cardiology department but cardiology related machinery and equipment available in the hospital had not be installed so far due to the lack of interest of the hospital administration.
A male and female dental surgeon, a gynecologist from DI Khan and a women medical officer from Lakki city were present in the dental and gynecology departments respectively.

The functioning of labour room could be judged from the fact that a single delivery case was conducted last month as revealed by a female doctor.
Several female doctors were found absent from duty and he also came to know that a women medical officer was absent from duty since the last three years.
Three doctors were present in the orthopedic department while one each in children and emergency departments. Several paramedics were found absent in emergency department.

Doctors said that minor surgeries were carried out in the hospital but they could not take the risk of conducting major operations. Such patients need round the clock care but at this stage it was not possible to provide them that with the number of vacant posts of doctors, they said.
An official of the management revealed that the posts of, at least, 40 doctors and 25 each of paramedics and nurses were vacant since long.
The additional deputy commissioner also noted with concern that all the departments of the hospital lacked water despite the fact that the hospital had a tube well and overhead water tank.

He also expressed his anguish over the poor hygiene and cleanliness condition and directed the hospital\\\'s administration to improve the attendance of doctors and other employees and initiate action against absent staff.
He assured that the district administration would approach high ups concerned to fill the vacant posts of doctors and paramedics as early as possible.

http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/42060/
 

jason

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Re: PTI govt\'s taking correct coarse

You see the people are the stakeholders in the management of Hospitals and Schools>it is in there chidren intserest that schools and hospitals perform best.
 

jeaybhutto

Senator (1k+ posts)
Re: PTI govt\'s taking correct coarse

the spelling is this: course not coarse, like PTI govt which is not on the right track!!
 

Pakistan1992

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Govt to cancel licences of unregistered arms manufacturers, dealers

PESHAWAR: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government is set to cancel licences of 400 arms manufacturers and dealers in the province because they failed to register their businesses, officials told The Express Tribune on Thursday.

On April 16, K-P Home and Tribal Affairs department issued a notification asking arms dealers and manufacturers to submit details of their businesses by April 29. Otherwise, their licences would be cancelled.
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Details sought included a site map, address of the factory, contract agreement, property registry and ownership, details on machinery and particulars including names and national identity card numbers of skilled and unskilled workers at the factory.
Home department had made it clear in case of failure, arms manufacturers and dealers would be dealt in accordance with the rules and regulations mentioned in the K-P Arms Policy, 2013. However, only a few manufacturers and dealers submitted the required details before the set deadline.

Earlier, there were only 45 licenced arms manufacturers in the province. But in 2011 and 2012, the department issued more than 210 manufacturing licenses, generating revenue of around Rs150 million.

Officials said arms manufacturers and dealers had been informed through advertisements to provide all the details about their businesses, but since around 400 of the 600 license holders failed to reply to the home department, it is now prepared to cancel their licenses.

We have computerized everything and we need data prior to 2012 since there are more than 500 license holders who do not run business, but have acquired the authority to manufacture arms, an official said requesting anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to the media.


He said they have issued around 600 licenses to arms dealers and manufacturers, adding one dealer is supposed to send at least one consignment a month. We hardly receive a transportation license a day, which clearly indicates very limited businesses are operational and only a few factories manufacture arms and ammunition. Similarly, few arms dealers run their shops.

He added the department is going to start a crackdown against all those who have failed to meet the criteria in the next few days.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/606632/...s-of-unregistered-arms-manufacturers-dealers/
 

desan

President (40k+ posts)
Re: Govt to cancel licences of unregistered arms manufacturers, dealers

PTI came with all GUNS blazing!!!!!