PESHAWAR, Nov 2: NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has warned of stern action against employees who were not performing their duties efficiently in the quake-hit areas.
He issued the warning while presiding over a cabinet meeting here on Wednesday.
The meeting discussed ways of ensuring relief activities, rehabilitating the affected people and providing them civic facilities.
The chief minister asked for compiling details of the injured and patients of the affected areas under a well-thought-out strategy and disciplined manner so that they could be provided required facilities well in time. All phases of relief activities in districts stricken by the tragedy must be completed in a transparent manner, he directed.
A committee comprising provincial ministers Raja Faisal Zaman and Akhtar Nawaz Khan was constituted to review the possibility of constructing houses for the displaced people in Haripur.
The cabinet decided to shift patients who had got well from hospitals to welfare homes and provide them with best possible facilities there. The meeting observed that foreign medical teams were providing best treatment to the injured people in the quake zone that had greatly reduced the suffering of the affected people. The cabinet lauded the services of all such medical teams.
The cabinet decided that deficiency of staff in hospitals and other sectors would be fulfilled.
It decided not to accept any pressure about transfer of officials who were deputed in Kohistan and other backward areas.
Health Minister Inayatullah told the cabinet that certain welfare organizations had expressed the desire to establish new hospitals on their own and repair the existing health institutions in the stricken areas.
The cabinet lauded the spirit of these organizations and expressed the confidence that it would help in reconstruction of hospitals and establishing new health centres to provide best medicare facilities to the local people.
The cabinet directed for constituting committees under the chairmanship of DCOs in the affected districts to remove rubble of damaged buildings and supervise recovery of precious items from such structures.
It decided to fulfil the deficiency of bulldozers in Kohistan for which funds would be immediately provided to the local administration. Helicopters would be used to provide edible items to people in various remote areas.
The chief minister directed summoning of a high-level meeting soon after Eid to review traffic problems of Peshawar. He said that he realized the difficulties of citizens resulting from the traffic chaos and was eager to solve the problem on a permanent basis.
The cabinet formed a committee under the chairmanship of Minister for Information Technology Hussain Ahmad Kanju for suggesting reforms in works & services department. The committee would submit its recommendations within two months. Other members of the committee are provincial ministers Maulana Falze Ali Haqqani, Shahraz Khan, Amanullah Haqqani, provincial secretary schools Amjad Shahid Afridi and secretary works & services Muhammad Riaz.
The cabinet appealed to the people to celebrate Eidul Fitr with simplicity and austerity in view of the devastations caused by the earthquake.
No Eid Mela or fairs would be allowed anywhere in the province, the cabinet decided. Similarly, severe action would be taken against those involved in aerial firing during moon-sighting and Eid days.