KARACHI, Nov 9: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan and chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim have stressed the need for filling in vacant posts in various government departments purely on merit.
Speaking at a meeting here at the Governor’s House, they reviewed development works, measures to control spread of viral diseases, law and order situation and other affairs pertaining to various departments of the province, a statement said here on Thursday.
They directed steps aimed at creation of maximum number of jobs in government, as well as private sectors.
Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping, Babar Ghouri, Sindh ministers Nadir Leghari, Adil Siddiqui, Irfanullah Marwat, Mohammad Hussain, Pir Sadruddin Shah, nazim of Karachi Syed Mustafa Kamal and nazim of Hyderabad Kanwar Naveed Jamil and Senator Ghafar Qureshi attended the meeting.
The governor and chief minister directed for accelerating the process of providing employment opportunities, putting particular emphasis on adoption of all the codal formalities in this regard.
Reviewing the ongoing uplift works in the province, it was decided to intensify the monitoring to ensure completion of projects in accordance with stipulated period of time and quality standards.
For this purpose, all the ministers and elected representatives will keep an eye while the concerned heads will supervise all the phases of worksby ensuring their physical presence at the projects sites.
In order to keep the government abreast of the problems of the people and making best efforts for redressal of the same, the governor and the chief minister emphasized establishment of close contact with the public by the ministers, elected representatives and heads of all the departments.
While reviewing the law and order situation, the meeting decided to keep a strict watch on the performance of concerned police stations to ensure eradication of narcotics, removal of dens breeding crimes besides street crimes.
In this regard, the concerned heads were directed to initiate action without any discrimination or succumbing to any pressure.
The meeting also reviewed steps towards ensuring protection against the dengue virus and other infectious diseases. They called for making a result oriented progress through ensuring necessary precautions with the involvement of public.
In this connection, decisions were taken for fortifying steps to ensure fumigation, availability of medicines and staff in hospitals and creation of awareness among general public.—APP
