ACS doesn’t want corrupt officials on lucrative posts

Additional Chief Secretary Punjab Shamail Ahmad Khawaja has directed the S&GAD authorities not to give lucrative posts to those officers against whom anti-corruption inquiries are pending.

In a briefing regarding union councils-based poverty reduction pilot project, the ACS was briefed by the relevant technical experts that the Punjab government was discussing the launch of a pilot project with an initial cost of five billion rupees for poor families through social mobilisation in rural areas of the province.

Under this project, deprived sections of rural areas would be motivated to start agro-based businesses on small scale in collaboration with their fellow villagers at union council level. Technical consultancy along with preparation of investment plan will be provided free of cost in this regard.

Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif has constituted a special committee headed by Additional Chief Secretary Punjab Shamail Ahmad Khwaja and comprising experts for considering in detail the pilot project proposed by a social leader Shoaib Sultan for poverty alleviation.

The first meeting of the committee was held on Wednesday at Civil Secretariat.

The committee has been assigned the task of evolving best mechanism with regard to enhancing usefulness of proposed project at UC based poverty reduction.

The meeting was informed that all projects of poverty alleviation were working at district level while the proposed pilot project would provide technical consultation to the poor at the union council level.

Under the proposed project, proposal has been given for constitution of community based organisation comprising 20 implementation partner each in backward villages in 107 union councils. These community organisations would jointly constitute village organisations while local support organisations would coordinate all affairs at union council level.

Meanwhile, Additional Chief Secretary Punjab Shamail Ahmad Khawaja presided over 13th meeting of the provincial selection board at Civil Secretariat in which decision was taken to promote 450 assistant professors of public sector colleges from grade 18 to 19 as associate professors.