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I’ll keep criticising bureaucracy until it delivers: Khattak
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Tuesday chose the inaugural ceremony of the Local Governance School to indulge, yet again, in his favourite pastime of bureaucracy-bashing and vowed to continue criticising it until it improved its performance.
“Some officers are good but most of them are bad. This criticism will hurt some officials as they have no intentions to perform their duties,” he said at the ceremony.
The chief minister said the government departments would be devolved to the local governments as the performance of bureaucracy was not satisfactory.
“We are devolving some government departments and making boards to improve the performance of government employees, who are lethargic,” he said.
Mr Khattak painted a bleak picture of the bureaucrats’ performance and held them responsible for the current deteriorating situation in the province.
He said he would continue speaking against the bureaucracy until they improved their performance.
Expressing satisfaction with the ongoing cleanliness campaign in the provincial capital, the chief minister said some beauty of the city had been restored.
He, however, said only cleaning and beautifying Peshawar was not enough and other urban areas across the province must look clean and green.
Mr Khattak directed officers to go out of their offices and examine developmental work in person and avoid believing papers only.
He said there were seven parks in the city, where around 250 employees had been working but not a single sapling was planted in the last few years.
Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Inayatullah Khan said the Local Governance School would help build the capacity of employees.
He said majority of civic bodies at district level were unable to pay salary to the staff as most such appointments in the previous government were made unnecessarily and that, too, on political grounds.
Local Government and Rural Development Secretary Hifzur Rehman said the Local Governance School had been established for catering for the training needs of Local Council Service and local government.
He said over a period of time, the functional domain, outreach and jurisdiction of local councils had registered phenomenal expansion but there had been no institutional and systemic arrangements for regular intake, dedicated training institutions, pre-service trainings, refresher courses, exposure to best practices and creation of opportunities to share experiences.
“This deficiency has adversely affected the professional standards of Local Council Service and delivery of services to the people at grassroots level. As a result, the Local Council Service has lost shine, drive and desire to deliver,” he said.Mr Rehman said the increasing workload of development initiatives at local level had added to the dispersal of focus on quality and standard of work and services.
He said through the Local Governance School, government employees would be trained on local I’ll keep criticising bureaucracy until it delivers: Khattak governance and municipal services to offer the facility of pre-service training and in-service refresher courses.
The secretary said the school would be developed into a specialised institute offering first certificate courses and then degree courses.
“The institute has the capacity to house the administrative department for policy level supervision, the Local Council Board, for tactical and operational guidance for LCS and the academic block and academia to cater for the training needs of the service,” he said.
Mr Rehman said the ultimate objective of the Local Governance School’s creation was to provide a think tank facility to the Local Council Service for improving professional standards, the quality of its services in municipal sector and optimal utilisation of the human and material resources.
“It will also meet the capacity building needs of councilors and nazims to be elected in the upcoming local body elections,” he said.
I’ll keep criticising bureaucracy until it delivers: Khattak - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Tuesday chose the inaugural ceremony of the Local Governance School to indulge, yet again, in his favourite pastime of bureaucracy-bashing and vowed to continue criticising it until it improved its performance.
“Some officers are good but most of them are bad. This criticism will hurt some officials as they have no intentions to perform their duties,” he said at the ceremony.
The chief minister said the government departments would be devolved to the local governments as the performance of bureaucracy was not satisfactory.
“We are devolving some government departments and making boards to improve the performance of government employees, who are lethargic,” he said.
Mr Khattak painted a bleak picture of the bureaucrats’ performance and held them responsible for the current deteriorating situation in the province.
He said he would continue speaking against the bureaucracy until they improved their performance.
Expressing satisfaction with the ongoing cleanliness campaign in the provincial capital, the chief minister said some beauty of the city had been restored.
He, however, said only cleaning and beautifying Peshawar was not enough and other urban areas across the province must look clean and green.
Mr Khattak directed officers to go out of their offices and examine developmental work in person and avoid believing papers only.
He said there were seven parks in the city, where around 250 employees had been working but not a single sapling was planted in the last few years.
Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Inayatullah Khan said the Local Governance School would help build the capacity of employees.
He said majority of civic bodies at district level were unable to pay salary to the staff as most such appointments in the previous government were made unnecessarily and that, too, on political grounds.
Local Government and Rural Development Secretary Hifzur Rehman said the Local Governance School had been established for catering for the training needs of Local Council Service and local government.
He said over a period of time, the functional domain, outreach and jurisdiction of local councils had registered phenomenal expansion but there had been no institutional and systemic arrangements for regular intake, dedicated training institutions, pre-service trainings, refresher courses, exposure to best practices and creation of opportunities to share experiences.
“This deficiency has adversely affected the professional standards of Local Council Service and delivery of services to the people at grassroots level. As a result, the Local Council Service has lost shine, drive and desire to deliver,” he said.Mr Rehman said the increasing workload of development initiatives at local level had added to the dispersal of focus on quality and standard of work and services.
He said through the Local Governance School, government employees would be trained on local I’ll keep criticising bureaucracy until it delivers: Khattak governance and municipal services to offer the facility of pre-service training and in-service refresher courses.
The secretary said the school would be developed into a specialised institute offering first certificate courses and then degree courses.
“The institute has the capacity to house the administrative department for policy level supervision, the Local Council Board, for tactical and operational guidance for LCS and the academic block and academia to cater for the training needs of the service,” he said.
Mr Rehman said the ultimate objective of the Local Governance School’s creation was to provide a think tank facility to the Local Council Service for improving professional standards, the quality of its services in municipal sector and optimal utilisation of the human and material resources.
“It will also meet the capacity building needs of councilors and nazims to be elected in the upcoming local body elections,” he said.
I’ll keep criticising bureaucracy until it delivers: Khattak - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
