PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ch ief Minister Pervez Khattak has approved special allowance for traffic wardens like the motorway police.

A statement issued here on Friday said the chief minister had announced the ‘traffic warden allowance’ during the Peshawar traffic warden launching ceremony in 2015 and asked the provincial police chief to send him a summary in that respect for approval.

It added that the police chief had moved a summary on March 11, 2015, followed by a letter on Feb 11, 2016, carrying details of the special allowance for 1867 traffic wardens like the motorway police’s personnel.

The statement said the police chief later wrote to the chief minister on Feb 8, 2017, asking for the approval of the summary to ensure the ‘optimal service delivery’ by the traffic warden.

It added that the Chief Minister approved special allowances for traffic wardens on the pattern of those given to the motorway police’s personnel.

The statement said as indicted in the summary, the ‘lower subordinates’ of the traffic warden force would be paid a monthly fixed allowance of Rs5,000, ‘upper subordinates’ Rs7,000 and gazetted officers Rs10,000.

It said the Chief Minister formed a special committee last week for the upgradation of the posts of the force’s ‘lower subordinates’, including constables, head constables and ASIs, asking it to file report in a fortnight.APP adds: KP Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Friday called for the effective and result-oriented training of officers saying it will not only increase their capacity but improve service delivery as well.

He was presiding over a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Provincial Services Academy here at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat.

Provincial chief secretary Abid Saeed, former chief secretary Azam Khan, journalist Rahimullah Yousafzai, administrative secretaries, finance and establishment and other board members of the academy.

The meeting approved the ‘previous mechanism, decisions and formula agreed to facilitate officers’ besides approving its previous decisions.

The Chief Minister formed a committee led by former chief secretary Azam Khan for the merger of different training facilities in Peshawar and need-driven facilitation at NIM, PARD.

The committee will make recommendations for different training strategies, external collaborative needs, training services and reaching different training outfits through MoUs.

It will suggest the creation of enhanced and quality training and capacity building of the PSA.

The participants also agreed to setting up two committees on human resource and finance and proposed the formation of an executive committee of the academy’s board of directors with certain powers to run the PSA affairs.

Published in Dawn, February 18th, 2017