Staff Reporter
Provincial Minister for Law Raja Basharat has said that a record legislation has been made during the last one year by approving 18 bills despite the presence of a strong opposition in Punjab Assembly.
While addressing a press conference at DGPR office here on Friday, Raja Basharat apprised the media men about one year performance of law and social welfare departments.
He said that four bills are ready to be tabled in Punjab Assembly while eleven important bills have been forwarded to standing committees for further processing.
He said that effective reforms have been introduced to improve the performance of law department adding that all prevailing laws in Punjab are being updated and placed online after their translation in Urdu language for the convenience of the people.
He informed that offices of District Attorneys and Advocate General are being interlinked with e-libraries along-with the system of monitoring so that cases could be processed soon and promotions would also be linked with their performance. Likewise, all the departments are directed that no law would be approved from the assembly in future unless its rules are not formulated within six months by them. Raja Basharat said the Chief Minister has given him the responsibility to chair 45 committees of different departments and reports of 20 such committees have been submitted to the Chief Minister.
In addition to it, the chairmanship of eight special committees of Punjab Assembly has also been assigned to me and meetings are being regularly held to move forward in this regard, he added.
Raja Basharat said that five shelter-homes are providing free residential, food and medical facilities to the needy in Lahore and more than one lac people have been facilitated through this platform during the last one year. Such shelter-homes will also be established in every division of the province along with six hospitals in Lahore, he added.
He said that solid steps have been taken to regulate more than eight thousand NGOs and funding of NGOs has also been scrutinized in accordance with the requirements of FATF.
He said that three percent job quota for the disabled is being followed and the regularization of 589 visually impaired daily wage employees has been started on the directions of the Chief Minister.
