Staff Reporter
Peshawar
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cabinet with Chief Minister Mahmood Khan in chair here Tuesday approved setting up of seven special children courts one each for every division and regularization of services of 9,618 special police officers (SPOs). Briefing newsmen about cabinet decision, Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai said the services of all those SPOs who served on contract or fixed pay under Regularization of Services Act 2019 till August 2019, would be regularized.
He said KP Govt had already given extension in services of SPOs from January 2020 to June 30, 2020, therefore, a total of 9618 SPOs would be regularized from July 1, 2020 that would cost Rs2726.393 million to provincial kitty. The Information Minister said the cabinet also approved establishment of seven child courts for speedy trial of children related cases. For this purpose, new vacancies for seven Additional District and Session Judge (AD&SJ BS 20) were approved that would cost additional Rs50 million.
The Cabinet also approved up-gradation of status of judicial locks at Tank, Swabi, Nowshera and Malakand as sub jail besides a new judicial lock for Bisham Shangla to be look after by the prison department. The appointment of District and Session Judge, Rajab Ali as anti-terrorism court judge Buner has been approved besides a district scrutiny and clearance committee led by the respective Deputy Commissioners of the merged districts.
Representation has been given to heads of concerned departments, additional deputy commissioners and officers of law enforcement agencies not less than the post of Lt Colonel and elected senators, MNAs and MPAs would also be invited in the committee meeting for speedy development of merged areas.
He said development process in 20 sectors have been started in merged areas under phase-I of the mega Accelerated Implementation Program with annual development outlay of Rs 59 billion for three years and for this purpose Rs 29 billion were already released after approval of 78 different schemes.
