PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has said that the local government system introduced by the incumbent provincial government was a unique one.
He expressed these views, while talking to a delegation led by MNA Shehryar Afridi.
The delegation comprising District Nazim Naseem Afridi, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) District President Advocate Aftab Alam, and the district and tehsil councillors among others met him at the Chief Minister Secretariat in Peshawar.
Pervez Khattak said that local system introduced by the PTI-led government helped considerably in bringing transparency in the process of governance, eliminating corruption and bringing down the graph of crimes in the province.
He called upon the nazimeen to take responsibility for everything in their respective districts, adding that the devolution of power made things easier at the local level. It accelerated the pace of development brought along total transparency and set a glaring example of good governance in the province.
He assured the visiting delegation that their problems related to the development and progress of the district Kohat would be resolved as expeditiously as possible. He noted that corruption was rampant in the past.
Now nobody could dare to be indulged in corruption or corrupt practices, he said, adding, public sectors institutions have been purged from all sorts of corruption, corrupt practices and irregularities. He said public sector institutions were now bound to the public service, upholding of merit, transparency and justice and adhering to the law of the land. Everybody is accountable, he added.
Pervez Khattak said his government enacted dozens of legislations to regulate the working of institutions and make them subservient to the law of the land, adding that the government would continue encouraging honest officers and officials and would not spare the officers and officials having heavy baggage. There was a clear concept of reward and punishment in this respect, he added.
The chief minister reminded that the good performance of the provincial government increased PTI’s popularity and assured welcoming the new entrants to the fold of PTI. He was optimistic of staging a comeback to the government on the basis of the current government’s performance. He said the government has allocated rupees one billion for Zameer Gull Dam in Kohat that will irrigate 2,900 Kanal of the land of three union councils, including Khushal Garh, Sheikh Ziaratullah and Chor Lakki.
He accepted an invitation for visiting Kohat and assured projects such as women and children parks, Bannu Road Flyover, up gradation of Gumbat Tehsil and ownership right to the people of Jerma and other related problems. He also assured for the accelerated work on six new blocks in a hospital of KDA.