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Shahbaz forms working groups
in Punjab
Staff Reporter
Lahore—Punjab Chief Minister-designate Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has
constituted a number of working groups to look into various aspects
of the functioning of the Punjab government while one such group
headed by Punjab Assembly Speaker designate, Rana Iqbal Ahmad Khan
MPA and convenor, Shafqat Mehmood (former senator), is busy
reviewing the Annual Development Programme of the province.
This was disclosed by the P&D Chairman, Suleman Ghani in a statement
here on Sunday
He further said that although the Shahbaz Sharif-led government was
still to take over yet it was hard at work.
He disclosed that the afore-mentioned working group comprised a
number of Punjab Assembly Members including Ch. Muhammad Ayaz,
Rawalpindi; Mrs. Shahzadi Umerzadi, Sargodha; Mrs. Nazia Raheel,
T.T.Singh; Malik Fayyaz Ahmad Awan, Hafizabad; Haji Nasir Mehmood,
Gujrat; Kh. Salman Rafique, Lahore; Khawaja Muhammad Islam,
Faisalabad; Farooq Yousaf Gurki, Lahore; M. Javed Bhatti,
Sheikhupura; Mian Yawar Zaman, Okara; Nishat Ahmad Khan Daha,
Khanewal; Malik Ghulam Habib Awan, Lahore and Sardar Dost Muhammad
Khosa, DG Khan. In addition to them Dr. Shahid Kardar, Dr. Rashid
Amjad (Vice Chancellor PIDE) and Dr. Amjad Saquib are also the
members of the working group.
The P&D Chairman further disclosed that the working group held two
marathon sessions in which he himself and his team deliberated upon
various aspects of the last year’s ADP and the Medium Term
Development Framework for the Punjab. Apart from this, special
briefing sessions were also held on Irrigation, Health, Mega
Projects such as Lahore Ring Road, Sialkot-Lahore Motorway and the
proposed Lahore Mass Transit Project.
He pointed out that a particular focus was on foreign-funded project
and issued such as regional equity avoiding wastage and ostentation,
and gender mainstreaming.
It is pertinent to mention here that the Chairman of the working
group, Rana Iqbal keeping in view the austerity drive on the part of
Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, instead of having a lunch from the largess
of the Punjab government, invited the participating members to the
Pepil House where a simple but sumptuous lunch was served to them.
This was clearly a shadow of the things to come as Muhammad Shahbaz
Sharif had taken hard decisions particularly converting the grand
Chief Minister’s Secretariat into a women IT university.
The working group on annual development programme was directed by
Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif to finish its work in one week and present
its report to him.
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