F.P. Report
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Sardar Usman Buzdar vowed that marked improvements in good governance and public service delivery mechanism will be introduced. Presiding over a meeting on providing better services to people and ensuring good governance at the Civil Secretariat here, he said that police and administrative officers were helping hands of the government.
He said that setting up of new districts was being reviewed across the province on administrative grounds and a special committee had been constituted under the chair of Chief Secretary, which would deliberate on setting up of new districts.
He said that police and administration should ensure a strong liaison with the people and public representatives for providing better services, ensuring good governance and solution to problems.
The CM reiterated that improving the public sector hospitals was the top priority of the government and made it clear that a real change would be ensured by making police, healthcare and education sectors better than the best. Unlike the previous traditions, police and administration were politically independent and free in decision making, he added. Such an example of liberalising the administration and the police is unique and unprecedented, he added. Service delivery would start improving conspicuously with better public dealing, he said.
The DCs and DPOs were part of the CM team and he would be standing with the officers serving people, he added.
He said that the government would provide relief to the poor and needy segments of society in accordance with the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
The change would have to be materialised and this change should be visible through good governance mechanism so that other provinces give the examples of Punjab, the chief minister said.
He said that the DC and DPO should be on the same page and added that non-cooperative attitude would never be tolerated. He said that police and administration should jointly perform in an honest manner so as to give the best service delivery and to achieve good results. The impact of improved public dealing of administration and police was more durable and lasting than the development projects, he added. He said that Punjab would be transformed as a model province with regard to good governance.
Usman Buzdar said that he would personally monitor the service delivery standards by visiting the whole of the province without prior information and the latest IT system would also be utilised to understand problems of the people and to maintain a direct liaison with them.
Earlier, the Chief Secretary gave a detailed briefing to the Chief Minister about different steps taken for improved good governance and public service delivery.
Senior Administrative and Police Officers attended the meeting.
