Caretaker Sindh Chief Minister Justice (Retd) MaqboolBaqar emphasizes the significance of dedicated public service, urging officials to work tirelessly to serve the people. Baqar stresses the importance of public ownership, suggesting that dissatisfaction may be indicated if the public does not embrace the efforts of public servants. He encourages officers to overcome challenges with conviction and personal commitment in their pursuit of innovative public policies and effective implementations.
This he said while speaking at the Graduation Ceremony of BS-19 officers who have completed their 16-week-long Senior Management Course (34th SMC) at the National Institute of Management (NIM), Karachi. Those who attended the program include the Director General, NIM Dr. LubnaAyub, Chief Instructor, Senior Management Course (SMC) KhaliiqShaikh, and others.
Justice Baqar said that this course, though being a mandatory requirement for promotion to BS-20 positions, must have brushed up the officers underwent existing repertoire tools and skills, and helped them gain critical new insights on numerable issues and challenges through various training activities including lecture and panel discussions by distinguished speakers/scholars/economists.
Justice Baqar said that since the performance in the NIM course carried significant weight for officers’ career advancement, therefore he hoped that the course participants must have invested their time, energy, and passionate efforts to gain knowledge, skills, and necessary tools, for their personal and professional transformations as required for holding senior echelons of policy and decision-making tiers of the government(s) at both the Federal and Provincial levels.
He said that he was confident that the National School of Public Policy (NSPP) Syllabus containing themes on public policy, public financial management, leadership and communication skills, strategic planning and crisis management, decision making, and research and analysis, must have enabled the newly trained officers to take better cognizance of myriad challenges faced by our country, especially the critical twin challenge of the “good governance” and ‘’public service delivery’’ during your numerable academic and practical assignments.
NIM Karachi being a constituent unit of the National Institute of Public Policy (NSPP), Lahore, is a highly prestigious training Institute of the country due to continuing academic and professional development rigor, unique training activities and traditions, professional commitment and dedication towards the professional development of trainee officers, the CM said and added that the NIM Karachi provided myriad and varied opportunities to the course participants for professional interaction with policymakers and politicians, senior executives, scholars, and community leaders to enhance their 340-degree understanding of public policy challenges and help them think from different perspectives of various stakeholders. He said that Government Departments, particularly training institutes, suffer from a relative disadvantage of scarcity of necessary resources, both in terms of human and financial.
In this context, I would like to sincerely congratulate Dr. LubnaAyub, the Director General, and her Senior Management course and other support teams, for organizing the four-month-long course successfully with passion and professional commitment. Earlier, DG NIM DrLubna addressing the course participants urged them to remove the `red lamps’ from the corridors of their offices. “These red lamps hanging in the corridor of the offices remind us of the colonial era and were introduced by the Britishers,” she said and added that the officers must interact with the complaints personally instead of leaving them at the mercy of their clerical staff.
