Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that he is working hard to make all the provincial government departments more efficient, effective and vibrant in the larger public interest. This is the only way to establish good governance in the province.
The chief minister said this while presiding over a meeting on the recoveries and target of the Sindh Revenue Board (SRB) on Tuesday at New Sindh Secretariat. The meeting was attended by Chief Secretary Siddique Memon, SRB Chairman Alamuddin Bullo, SRB Advisor Mushtaq Kazmi, Secretary Finance Hassan Naqvi and others.
He said he could not do anything alone as only team work would make the difference. “The establishment of SRB was a great move of the PPP government in Sindh and now it has started producing great results by making record revenues,” he said, and congratulated them on their excellent team work.
SRB Chairman Alamuddin Bullo briefed the chief minister and said the SRB had collected Rs 10 billion during the first one and half month of the new financial year 2016-17. Giving further break-up of the recoveries, he said in July 2016 the recovery was recorded at Rs 6.84 billion while upto August 15 it had been recorded at Rs 3.22 billion.
Bullo said the recovery target for current financial year was Rs 78 billion while last year it was Rs 61 billion. He assured the chief minister that the target given by the government to the SRB would be achieved.
Meanwhile, the chief minister visited Old Campus of Molve Abdul Haq Urdu University along with his two cabinet members – Manzoor Wassan and Imdad Pitafi. He laid floral wreath on the grave of Baba-i-Urdu Molvi Abdul Haq and offered fateha.
The chief minister visited the building of the Old Campus and then addressed the 55th death anniversary gathering to pay tribute to Molvi Abdul Haq for his contribution. He said Molvi Abdul Haq was a great scholar and people like him are born after centuries.
Shah announced Rs 5 million annual grant for the university and vowed to visit the university shortly to discuss the issues with the management.
