Chief Secretary Punjab review performance of all provincial departments

Lahore : Chief Secretary Punjab Capt (R) Zahid Saeed has directed all the administrative secretaries to review performance of their departments regularly and work diligently to achieve the fixed targets so that public service delivery could be improved.

He was presiding over a meeting to review performance of all provincial departments, at Civil Secretariat here on Friday. Addressing the meeting, the Chief Secretary said that better performance would help improve governance.

He said that the provincial government is following a comprehensive development plan and a number of revolutionary projects have been started in the fields of transport, health, education, agriculture, and infrastructure which are yielding positive results.

He added that projects like Metro Bus and Orange Line Train have been started to provide state-of-the-art transport facilities to people whereas farmers are being provided interest-free loans and smart phones as part of programme to improve agriculture sector.

He said that that record funds have been allocated for health, education, agriculture and housing sector in the annual development programme.

He directed the heads of all provincial departments to resolve problems of people on priority basis and improve public service delivery. The administrative secretaries presented performance report of their respective departments.

The meeting was attended by Chairman Planning and Development Board, Senior Member Board of Revenue, Additional Chief Secretary, administrative secretaries of different departments and officers concerned.