As an important step to ensure public services delivery in a more efficient and transparent manner in various service delivery outlets of the provincial government, the Caretaker Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Justice (R) Syed Arshad Hussain Shah has directed the concerned authorities for taking necessary steps on urgent basis to install live Internet Protocol Cameras (IPCs) at patwar kahanas, police stations and offices of DCs, ACs, DPOs, DSPs and Tehsildars across the province
He further directed to complete installation of IPCs at all aforementioned public service outlets/ offices by the end of this month. He also directed the concerned high ups to set up a Centralized Monitoring Cell for the surveillance of those cameras and to put in place a mechanism for direct access of the Chief Minister, Chief Secretary and Inspector General of Police offices to those cameras via IP network.
He underlined the need to initiate implementation of this project without any delay and directed the quarter concerned to immediately issue proper directives in written regarding installation of IPCs at all aforementioned offices. He was presiding over a meeting of the Board of Revenue held here at Chief Minister’s House.
Provincial caretaker Minister for Information Technology Dr Najeeb Ullah, caretaker Minister for Finance and Revenue Ahmed Rasool Bakhsh, Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, Additional Chief Secretary Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah and other relevant officials of the Board of Revenue attended the meeting. The participants of the meeting reviewed the progress made so far on the digitization of land records project and discussed various matters related to patwar kahanas and other offices of public service delivery.
The chief minister directed the quarters concerned to ensure supply of electricity and to install fire extinguishers at Muhafizkhanas across the province. He further directed them to make the complaint redressal mechanism functional in order to timely address the public grievances regarding revenue affairs. The chief minister expressed great concerns over unnecessary delay in the completion of land records digitization project and directed for taking practical steps to complete this important project in all respects by the end of this year.
