PESHAWAR: Caretaker Chief Minister Justice retired Syed Arshad Hussain Shah on Friday launched a digital dashboard under the Khushal Khyber Pakhtunkhwa programme for real-time monitoring of provincial departments, and other public service delivery outlets at divisional and district levels with a view to improving their performance.

Khushal Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Dashboard was launched at an event held at the Chief Minister’s House.

Provincial ministers Syed Masood Shah, Barrister Feroz Jamal Shah Kakakhel, Ahmed Rasool Bangash, Eng Ahmed Jan, Dr Najeebullah, principal secretary to CM Amjad Ali Khan, administrative secretaries and other senior officials were present, according to a statement.

It said alongside live monitoring of public service delivery centres across the province, the performance of provincial departments, district administrations and police department will be assessed through dashboard daily.

Moreover, 27 key performance indicators (KPIs), including blocked khewats, demarcation cases, pending mutation cases, revenue collection and retrieval of state land have been identified for district administrations, while nine KPIs, including actions against drug peddlers, street criminals, murderers and thieves, have been identified for police.

Furthermore, in the first phase, KPIs have also been identified for different departments, including health, home and tribal affairs, excise and narcotics control, local government, energy and power, livestock and dairy development, mines and minerals, relief and rehabilitation and public health engineering.

Speaking on this occasion, Justice Arshad Hussain lauded the efforts of cabinet members, chief secretary and his entire team for materialising this flagship project in an effective and timely manner.

He said eliminating corruption, maintaining law and order, ensuring good governance, improving public service delivery, devising human resource export strategy, addressing public complaints and acting against drug traffickers and encroachments were amongst the important components of the Khushal Khyber Pakhtunkhwa programme. He added the initiative also aimed at monitoring patwar khanas (revenue circles), police stations and other public service outlets.

The chief minister said due to insufficient job opportunities within the country, the provincial government had devised its human capital export strategy, under which youth would be imparted crash courses in different fields and sent abroad for employment.

He said the provincial government was committed to holding elections in a peaceful manner.

Justice Arshad Hussain said keeping in view the current financial position of the province, the funding issue of merged districts, especially their share in NFC Award, had been taken up with the caretaker prime minister, who had constituted a committee headed by the secretary finance division to resolve the longstanding issue.

Published in Dawn, January 13th, 2024