The 18th meeting of the Standing Committee on Legislative Business was held at the Civil Secretariat chaired by Provincial Minister for Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Social Welfare Raja Basharat on Thursday.
Minister of Labor Anser Majeed Khan, Minister of Sports Timur Ahmed Khan, Chief Secretary Azam Salman, Additional Chief Secretary Shaukat Ali, Additional Chief Secretary Home Momin Agha, Secretary Law Nazir Ahmed Gajana and secretaries of the respective departments were also present.
The meeting accorded amendments in the Service Rules of the Intelligence Cadre of the Special Branch of Police, LDA Land Use Rules 2014 for the installation of power plant and in the Motor Vehicle Ordinance 1965 to regulate the app based taxi service in Punjab. The Wildlife Department was also given permission to organize black buck, chinkara and Neel Gai hunting trophies in Cholistan and to reconstitute the Punjab Social Security Health Management Company’s board of directors.
The committee gave go ahead to the Excise Department to sign service level agreement for computerization of immovable property tax in six districts of Punjab. The Local Government Department was also allowed to nominate the board of directors of the Dera Ghazi Khan Waste Management Company and to sign up an MoU between the administration of the Chinese city of Qingdao and Municipal Corporation of Faisalabad.