Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has said that present government has laid a foundation of change by discarding the old traditions. He said that PTI government was promoting austerity instead of profuse expenditure. He said that social change may take time but it was long lasting. He said that development of far flung and backward areas was the top priority of the government.
Usman Buzdar said that we were determined to improving the living standards of deprived segments of the society. He said that by using IT government will make the standard of good governance and services more batter. Process of services was being effectively monitored through Citizen Feedback Monitoring Programme.
He further maintained that the reach of chain of services was being extended to the far flung cites through information technology. System of most of the public offices in Punjab has been made computerized. Record of government employees was also transferred on the computer in various departments.
Paperless automated system will automatically improve the standards of services, he added. He said that complaints against the government employees have been reduced due to the utilization of IT system. He further maintained that IT system brought the corruption level to zero.
Economic circumstances will be changed by the setting up of 10 industrial zones in the province. The government wants to complete the process of setting up of industrial zones as soon as possible. He said that setting up of industrial zone in southern Punjab will reduce the sense of the deprivation among the people of the area. He said that southern Punjab will emerge as a prosperous region of the Pakistan. He said that investment of billions of dollars was being made in Punjab. Past mistakes will be rectified by boosting the process of industrialization, he added.
Usman Buzdar has sent a bouquet to the renowned journalist, intellectual and a columnist Mujeeb-ur-Raman Shami. He prayed for his early recovery and expressed good wished for him. He said that Mujeeb-ur-Rahman Shami has unique position among the columnists and lauded his services in the field of journalism. He further maintained that Shami was a unique analyst as well. He prayed that may Allah Almighty grant early and complete recovery to Mujeeb-ur-Rahman Shami.