Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has asked the Information Department to have a creative role in consonance with the present day needs of publicity.
He directed to publicise the government initiatives for the public welfare. The people should know about the welfare activities so that they could avail them, he added.
He was presiding over a meeting of the Information Department here at Chief Minister’s House, Peshawar. Advisor to Chief Minister on Information Mushtaq Ghani, Secretary Information and others also attended. The chief minister also met a delegation of Nowshera Press Club which was led by its President Mushtaq Paracha. He directed to expedite work on Nowshera Media Colony. The chief minister asked the Information Department to market the government products in education, health, local government, legislations, reforms and other initiatives launched by his government for the benefit of the general public.
The chief minister said that there should be a comparison between his government initiatives for the public welfare and the past. The present is better off than past as his government introduced record legislations and reforms in the public sector institutions, depoliticised them and made them subservient to the will of the people. He directed to show the past and present of the province. His government discouraged undesired spending and promoted a culture of spending on the public welfare and revamped the system to deliver up to the people expectations.
These steps were for public welfare and the people should catch the sight of these facilities to avail them. These steps, he added, totally changed the complexion of governance and a new style of good governance emerged in the province having no space for corruption and irregularities.
Pervez Khattak said that the revamped system brought transparency and openness in governance that was unparallel in nature and history that had changed the entire landscape of delivery in the province. He said that the publicity of these initiatives were pro poor and therefore the Information Department should tell the people the ground reality and the sincerity with which the government ensured public spending so that they could draw their own conclusion between the present and past.
