PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has directed the government departments to streamline screening tests and interviews mechanism for hiring staff and adopt realistic criteria for the purpose.

A statement issued here said that while chairing a meeting of KP Urban Mobility Authority’s board of directors, the chief minister said that screening tests and interviews should be based on questions relevant and practical to the field in which staff was to be hired instead of asking irrelevant and out of context questions in those tests so that selection of candidates having the required professional capabilities could be ensured.

The meeting was informed that first phase of recruitment of staff in the authority had been completed, however, some of the vacancies of technical personnel could not be filled due to unavailability of candidates having the required educational qualifications and professional experience.

The board decided to re-advertise the left over vacancies after relaxing the required professional experience and the selection board of the authority was assigned the task of revising the relevant service regulations.

The board approved the proposed route permit fee structure for the vehicle operating company of BRT.

On the recommendation of the board of directors of TransPeshawar, the meeting also accorded approval to nominate seven officers of the company as transit compliance officer.

Similarly, the board also approved in principle the proposed rent rate for the newly constructed commercial building of KPMUA and decided to adopt the existing criteria of communication and works department of per square per feet rent rate for the purpose.

Published in Dawn, January 18th, 2021