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KARACHI, Dec 1: The provincial Chief Secretary, K. B. Rind, has said that government will launch a crash programme after Eidul-Fitr to ensure provision of better facilities in health and education sectors.
He directed all the secretaries and departmental heads to dispose of all pending files without any delay.
Talking to various delegations at his office, he said that an advisory committees, consisting journalists and social workers, would be formed to carry out reforms.
Head of one of the delegations identified problems, including shortage or non-availability of staff and equipment at hospitals and educational institutions.
The CS told the delegations that all the secretaries and departmental heads had been asked to take immediate action on public-related matters so that ends of justice and law could be met without any delay.
PRISONERS: Addressing a gift distribution ceremony at the Central Prison here on Sunday, Mr Rind directed the jail authorities to provide every legitimate facility to the prisoners.
Representatives of various social welfare departments, women development department and different NGOs were also present at the ceremony during which clothes and other gifts were distributed among more than 250 woman and juvenile prisoners.
He acknowledged the government’s responsibility to make prisons rehabilitation centres.
“Prisoners, particularly women and children, must be given a friendly environment because they were also human beings,” he said while referring to the pathetic treatment being meted out by the jail authorities against the inmates.
He called upon prison authorities to hold meetings with concerned officials to chalk out programmes for the rehabilitation of prisoners so that the inmates could become law- abiding citizens.
The IG Prisons, Brig Nisar Ahmed Mehar, briefed the chief secretary about measures taken for rehabilitation of woman and juvenile inmates.
He said that separates wards were being constructed for women prisoners in Sukkur and Hyderabad jails.
The Home Secretary, Mohammed Aslam, and IG Syed Kamal Shah also attended the ceremony. —APP
