Punjab Chief Secretary Kamran Ali Afzal has directed all the secretaries to conduct inspections of the development projects of their respective departments for quality construction work.
He issued the direction while presiding over a meeting held to review the performance of departments in the implementation of the annual development program at the Planning and Development Department here on Thursday. The Additional Chief Secretary (South Punjab), Additional Chief Secretary Home and administrative secretaries of all departments attended the meeting.
Kamran Ali Afzal said that all the departments should strengthen the monitoring system to ensure quality in the uplift projects. He also directed the authorities to formulate rules for imposing fines in case of faulty construction. He stressed that transparent and timely utilization of funds should be ensured.
The Chief Secretary lauded the performance of the departments of local government, environment and industries over better utilization of funds and asked the officers to set priorities in allocating development and non-development budgets. He said that ongoing development projects should be given priority in the next annual development programme.
Chairman Planning and Development Abdullah Khan Sumbal gave a briefing on allocated funds, their releases and utilization. It was informed that Rs. 664 billion had been allocated for 8682 development schemes in the current financial year and third party validation of schemes costing more than Rs.400 million would be carried out.
