LAHORE: Bureaucracy hampering LG system, says Amer
By Our Reporter
LAHORE, Aug 10: District Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood has said that bureaucracy was creating obstacles in the success of the local government system.
Talking to a group of 34 under-training officers from NIPA, Quetta, here on Tuesday, the Nazim said the district government were fully aware of the real problems of the people but it could not solve the same without the cooperation of bureaucracy.
He said the policies in the local government were formulated by political leadership but implemented by bureaucracy. Local governments thus could not produce positive results by ignoring the role of bureaucracy.
SOOMRO: Senate chairman Muhammad Mian Soomro has said that government-business community cooperation was necessary for industrial development. Speaking at a dinner hosted in his honour by industrialist Mian Nisar Elahi here, Mr Soomro said the industrialists and businessmen were contributing towards the progress of the country by paying taxes.
He said the government had accepted most of the proposals submitted by the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry. LCCI president Mian Anjum Nisar said the deteriorating law and order situation was posing a serious threat to the efforts being made by the government for economic development of the country.
Not only the foreign investors had started showing reservations but the entrepreneurs within the country had become reluctant to invest following the recent assault on Shaukat Aziz and bomb blasts in Karachi.
He said new investment had been diverted to real estate due to the poor law and order situation which was not helping in solving the unemployment problem. He said the government should award punishment to lawbreakers and reduce the costs of utilities for encouraging investment.
Former LCCI presidents Mian Tajjamal Hussain and Shahzada Alam Munnoo also spoke on the occasion. Wapda chairman Tariq Hamid, provincial ministers and industrialists attended the reception.
