Staff Reporter Peshawar
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has directed the authorities concerned to ease restrictions by relaxing Rules & Regulations to facilitate investors with the aim to attract more investors in the province and to create jobs opportunities for the jobless youth as per the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The Chief Minister also directed the concerned authorities to take necessary steps to fix a maximum age limit for each category of government jobs so that the candidates applying for the jobs do not go round the offices for age relaxation.
This, he said, while presiding over a meeting of the provincial cabinet on Wednesday.
Apart from the members of the provincial cabinet, the meeting was also attended by the Chief Secretary, Additional Chief Secretary and administrative Secretaries of the concerned departments.
The Chief Minister directed the Cabinet Committee, set up to streamline matters related to private testing agencies, to finalize its recommendations in this regard at the earliest.
He further directed that tests conducted by private testing agencies for the recruitment of government employees should be confined to screening of candidates only.
He further directed the committee to make workable recommendations for strengthening the government testing agencies and especially the Public Service Commission so that the long pending vacancies in the Public Service Commission could be filled as soon as possible.
The Chief Minister also directed the concerned authorities to take necessary steps to utilize the unused land of the Golf course in Kabal area of Swat for construction of a park and other developmental projects in the best public interest.
The cabinet extended upper age limit for PMS exams upto 2-years as previous year’s exams were delayed due to corona pandemic.
This will provide an opportunity to the candidates who crossed the age limit to get a chance to appear in the upcoming PMS exams.
The Cabinet also approved appointment of Vice Chancellors for a period of 3-years for seven public sector universities. This include Prof.
Gul Majid Khan for Islamia College University Peshawar, Prof. Dr. Amin Badshah for University of Buner, Prof. Dr.
Zahir Shah for Chitral, Prof. Muhammad Jahanzeb Khan for FATA University, Prof. Dr. Ghazala Jamal for Women’s University Mardan, Dr. Zia-ul-Haq for Khyber Medical University Peshawar and Prof. Dr. Nasir Jamal Khattak for Swabi University.
The Cabinet, after a detailed discussion on the proposed rules for prevention of vagrancy, constituted a committee headed by the Law Minister to further improve these rules.
The Cabinet also approved the appointment of 11 non-official members for the Commission on Women’s Status.
