LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar Wednesday chaired a meeting of the Communication & Works (C&W) Department to review departmental performance and future roadmap. 

Provincial C&W Minister Sardar Muhammad Asif Nakai and others attended the meeting. 

The Secretary C&W Department told the meeting that disciplinary action had been initiated against 144 officers and officials for showing poor performance. He further stated that as many as 1,027 development projects will be completed in the province. 

The meeting decided to introduce the road asset management system for bringing infrastructural improvements and roads’ monitoring. 

The meeting further decided to set up a special project unit and gave in-principle approval of adhoc recruitments against essential vacant posts in the C&W Department and to overcome the dearth of professionals in the Punjab Architecture Department. It was also decided to expand the scope of Lahore Ring Road Authority while renaming it as Punjab Ring Road Authority. 

The Chief Minister directed the adoption of the latest techniques for the construction of roads and buildings and fast-falling laser levelers should be used to improve the quality of roads. 

He directed legal action against illegal buildings and housing schemes constructed within roads’ limits. He also ordered construction of farm-to-market roads within the stipulated time to ease access of villages. The CM further directed to fix warning boards to discourage entry of heavy transport on small roads. He also issued instructions for early completion of MM Road. Usman Buzdar said that unnecessary budget estimates for the construction of roads and buildings should be discouraged.  

Chairman PPSC presents annual report to CM

Chairman Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) Lt Gen (retired), Malik Zafar Iqbal presented the annual report-2020 to Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar at his office on Wednesday. 

He also briefed the CM about the performance of the PPSC. The CM said a new culture of merit and transparency has been introduced by the PTI government. 

Different nations of the world have achieved new pinnacles of glory and development by following transparency and merit-based systems, he added. The role of PPSC is very important in merit-based recruitments, he said.