By: Taimor Khan
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa accountability committee has summoned 23 members of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet to review their performance.
The committee will question the cabinet members about their performance and their plans for the province.
According to documents available with Pakhtun Digital, the Chief Minister’s Special Assistant for Relief Naik Muhammad has been summoned on March 24, Special Assistant for Prisons Humayun Khan on March 25, Advisor for Tourism Zahid Chanzeb on March 26, Special Assistant for Transport Rangiz Ahmed on March 27, Special Assistant for Energy and Power Tariq Mahmood Khan Saduzai on April 7, Special Assistant for Science Technology and Information Technology on April 7, Special Assistant for C&W Muhammad Sohail Khan Afridi on April 8 and Advisor for Finance Muzammil Aslam has also been summoned on the same day.
Minister for Labor Fazal Shakoor has been summoned on April 9, Minister for Irrigation Aqibullah on April 9, Special Assistant for Technical Education Tufail Anjum and Minister for Local Government Arshad Ayub on April 10, Minister for Endowments, Hajj and Religious Affairs Adnan Qadri and Minister for Higher Education Mina Khan Afridi on April 14, Minister for Livestock Fazal Hakeem and Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Faisal Khan Tarakai on April 15, Advisor for Health Ehtesham Ali and Special Assistant for Forests Musawar Khan on April 16, while Minister for Law Aftab Alam Khan Afridi has been summoned on April 17, while many have appeared before the committee a few days ago.
According to sources, the committee will send the performance report of each department to the Chief Minister after preparing it, but this committee has no legal status, rather the Chief Minister himself has established it as a monitoring body so that there is pressure on ministers, advisors and special assistants. The committee is headed by Brigadier (retd) Mosaddeq Abbasi, Advisor to the Chief Minister on Anti-Corruption, while PTI Shah Farman and Qazi Anwar Advocate are also among his members.
The accountability committee has prepared an 18-point proforma for each department, based on which ministers, advisors and special assistants will be questioned. According to the 18-point proforma available with Azad Digital, a qualified person should be appointed to each post, the person appointed should not have any affiliation with any political party, the responsibilities of each post should be clear, each department should know its objectives and achieve them within the stipulated period, how they will improve the public image, each department should appoint the right staff, make appointments based on merit, each department should form committees to resolve pending cases in the courts so that this can be resolved at the departmental level. The departments should conduct internal audits to eliminate corruption, a procedure should be formulated for redressal of complaints, what plans have been made for austerity, all projects should be carried out through IT so that money laundering is prevented, office hours should be implemented, along with implementing the rules, the law should be reviewed to make it people-friendly, welfare measures and open courts should be organized, while procurement should be done according to the rules.
The accountability committee has also prohibited giving additional charges for more than one month, besides not giving postings to NAB-affected officers, appointing officers only according to grade and no senior officer should be made subordinate to a junior officer, no Patwari and SHO should be posted repeatedly in the same police station and constituency and whoever has done duty in the same police station or constituency for three years should not be posted there again under any circumstances, appointments should be made based on domicile in remote districts, non-performing officers should be replaced, performance audit of each officer and department should be made mandatory once a year. Similarly, the deputation policy should be abolished, but at present dozens of officers are posted on deputation and most of them have been posted on the orders of the Chief Minister’s House, most of which have not followed the procedure.
The indiscriminate use of government vehicles should be stopped and the vehicle should be allotted to the authorized officer under the rules.
