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Gilani orders completion of devolution process
Wednesday, 06 Oct, 2010
ISLAMABAD: The nine-member Parliamentary Implementation Commission on 18th Amendment resolved on Tuesday that the deadline of June 30, 2011, for completion of the devolution process would be met at all costs.
A meeting of the commission, presided over by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at his Parliament House chamber, reviewed the process of devolution of powers following the abolition of the Concurrent List.
The commissions chairman Senator Raza Rabbani, deputy chairman Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Petroleum Minister Syed Naveed Qamar, Housing and Works Minister Haji Rehmatullah Kakar and Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Dr Farooq Sattar attended the meeting.
Insiders told Dawn that the prime minister, who was under pressure to purge his cabinet of some undesired ministers and to cut its size to 11 per cent membership of the two houses of parliament as laid down by the 18th Amendment, also discussed the matter with some members of the commission.
The prime minister was informed that the size of the federal cabinet would automatically come down to a reasonable level after the completion of devolution process and in accordance with provisions of the Constitution.
Mr Rabbani told Dawn that the meeting had been informed that the process of devolution of various ministries to the provinces would be completed in two phases between January and June next year.
He said the commission had also suggested certain changes in the rules of business of the federal government which would be followed after the devolution.
Mr Rabbani informed the meeting that the commission had studied the whole gambit of issues and it had yet to decide as to how many federal ministries would be disbanded and how many would be retained to maintain a few vital functions.
He said that more than a dozen federal ministries would have to be devolved to provinces.
An official handout said: The prime minister was apprised of the fact that as decided at a previous meeting of the commission chaired by him and attended by the four chief ministers, the process of devolution will be incremental. In the light of this decision, the first two phases will be completed by January 31, 2011.
Wednesday, 06 Oct, 2010
ISLAMABAD: The nine-member Parliamentary Implementation Commission on 18th Amendment resolved on Tuesday that the deadline of June 30, 2011, for completion of the devolution process would be met at all costs.
A meeting of the commission, presided over by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at his Parliament House chamber, reviewed the process of devolution of powers following the abolition of the Concurrent List.
The commissions chairman Senator Raza Rabbani, deputy chairman Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Petroleum Minister Syed Naveed Qamar, Housing and Works Minister Haji Rehmatullah Kakar and Minister for Overseas Pakistanis Dr Farooq Sattar attended the meeting.
Insiders told Dawn that the prime minister, who was under pressure to purge his cabinet of some undesired ministers and to cut its size to 11 per cent membership of the two houses of parliament as laid down by the 18th Amendment, also discussed the matter with some members of the commission.
The prime minister was informed that the size of the federal cabinet would automatically come down to a reasonable level after the completion of devolution process and in accordance with provisions of the Constitution.
Mr Rabbani told Dawn that the meeting had been informed that the process of devolution of various ministries to the provinces would be completed in two phases between January and June next year.
He said the commission had also suggested certain changes in the rules of business of the federal government which would be followed after the devolution.
Mr Rabbani informed the meeting that the commission had studied the whole gambit of issues and it had yet to decide as to how many federal ministries would be disbanded and how many would be retained to maintain a few vital functions.
He said that more than a dozen federal ministries would have to be devolved to provinces.
An official handout said: The prime minister was apprised of the fact that as decided at a previous meeting of the commission chaired by him and attended by the four chief ministers, the process of devolution will be incremental. In the light of this decision, the first two phases will be completed by January 31, 2011.
