PESHAWAR, June 29: The Reforms Implementation Cell (RIC) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Saturday established working groups for introducing reforms in government departments. Initially, working groups have been notified for education, health, local government and rural development departments and E-governance so as to accomplish the mission of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-led provincial government, according to a notification here.
It said that Chief Secretary Arbab Mohammad Shehzad had established the RIC to carry out the reform agenda of the provincial government.
The working group on education sector will work on different aspects of the education department, including devolution of education management, adult education and literacy, reform of curriculum, syllabus and assessment, and reorganising teachers’ trainings.
Provincial Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education Mohammad Atif will head the group, while E&SE secretary will be its member/secretary. Other members of the group on education include ex-chief secretary Abdullah, Elementary Education Foundation MD Ghazala H Saifi, Rayed Afzal, Zulfiqar Ahmad, Umbreen Arif, Dr Rukhsana Zia, Dr Arif Nazir Butt, Prof Mohammad Memon and Musarrat Qadeem.
The working group on health sector will work for integrating preventive health care/immunisation at BHU level, making district headquarters and tehsil headquarters hospitals autonomous and empowered, revamping management of tertiary/teaching hospitals, restructuring of health foundation as an autonomous and empowered institution, devising policy on new medical colleges etc.
Provincial Minister for Health Shaukat Yousufzai will head the group as its chairman. Members of the group include Prof (retired) Dr Yasmin Rashid, Prof (retired) Dr Mohammad Daud, Dr Ali (Insaf Doctors Association), Dr Faisal Sultan CEO Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital, Prof (retired) Dr Lubna Hassan, Dr Perveen Azam, Dr Sabeena Imran Durrani, Dr Asad Hafeez and Dr Babar Sheikh, while Secretary Health Abid Ali will be its member/secretary.
The working group on local government and rural development sector will be led by its minister Inayatuallh Khan as its chairman.
Members of the group include Provincial Minister for Agriculture Shahram Khan, minister for communication and works Yousaf Ayub, MNA Shafqat Mehmood, MPA Aneesa Zeb Tahirkheli, secretary administration Hifzur Rahman, Rahmat Ghazi, Ali Asghar Khan, Dr Iqbal Khalil, Fariduddin Ahmad, Mukhtar Javed, Ms Maryum Bibi and Syed Said Badshah Bukhari, secretary local government as member/secretary.
