F.P. Report
PESHAWAR: As an important step to ensure public services delivery in a more efficient and transparent manner in various service delivery outlets of the provincial government, the Caretaker Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Justice (R) Syed Arshad Hussain Shah has directed the concerned authorities for necessary steps on urgent basis to install live cameras (Internet Protocol Cameras) at patwar kahanas, police stations and offices of DCs, ACs, DPOs, DSPs and Tehsildars across the province further directing them the to complete installation of IP cameras at all aforementioned public service outlets/ offices by the end of this month.
He also directed the concerned high ups to set up a Centralized Monitoring Cell for the surveillance of those cameras, and to put in place a mechanism for direct access of the chief minister, chief secretary and Inspector General of Police office to those cameras via IP network. He has underlined the need to initiate implementation of this project without any delay and directed the quarter concerned to immediately issue proper directives in written regarding installation of IP cameras at all aforementioned offices.
He was presiding over a meeting of the Board of Revenue held here at Chief Minister’s House the other day. Provincial caretaker minister for Information Technology Dr Najeeb Ullah, caretaker minister for finance and revenue Ahmed Rasool Bakhsh, Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, Additional Chief Secretary Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah and other relevant officials of the Board of Revenue attended the meeting.
The participants of the meeting reviewed the progress made so far on the digitization of land records project and discussed various matters related to Patwar kahanas and other offices of public service delivery. The Chief Minister directed the quarters concerned to ensure supply of electricity and to install fire extinguishers at Muhafizkhanas across the province. He further directed them to make the complaint redressal mechanism functional in order to timely address the public grievances regarding revenue affairs.
The Chief Minister has expressed great concerns over unnecessary delay in the completion of land records digitization project and directed for pragmatic steps to complete this important project in all respects by the end of this year. “No further delay would be tolerable to this effect” he warned and added that strict action would be taken against the elements found responsible for delaying in this important project.
The Chief Minister said that the poor people were suffering at the hands of the traditional patwar system and this abuse of people will not be tolerated anymore.”The officials of Board of Revenue should themselves reviewed the process of providing services to public by visiting the field on regular basis”, he directed and added that all the Deputy Commissioners would also have to visit at least one Patwarkhana in their respective districts on daily basis. Similarly, he directed the District Police Officers to ensure visit of at least one police station on daily basis in order to have check and balance on the affairs related to public services.
“It was our collective responsibility to serve the citizens as per their aspirations, for which all the concerned higher officials should spare the time for field visit in order to address the public grievances” he remarked. It was decided in the meeting to form a task force headed by the provincial minister for Information Technology for the timely completion of the land records digitization project. The task force will hold progress review meetings on daily basis and will submit report of the same to the chief minister. It was also decided to hold a weekly review meeting to be chaired by the chief minister with the purpose to take a stock of progress on the project.
