Federal cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Imran Khan
Islamabad … News Time
Prime Minister Imran Khan chaired by Federal cabinet meeting Prime Minister and Federal Ministers has decided to remove discretionary funds. Cabinet has also decided to investigate and audit metro bus and orange train projects. Apart from this, the decision to resume biometric system was also changed for office hours and attendance. Could not decide to finish two weekly holidays in the meeting however, office hours instead of 8 to 4 in the morning it was decided to be from 9 am to 5 pm. It will also save electricity. Offices will be opened even after Friday prayers.
The cabinet also decided to plant 10 billion trees in 5 years and has also established a task force for cleaning the countrywide. Prime Minister Imran Khan has also announced that he will not use the allocation for the prime minister. The cabinet decided that the Prime Minister would use the club class instead of the first class. Similarly, including the Chief Justice, Chairman, Senate and the Foreign Minister, those who travel in the first class will use the club class. On the side question, he said that this decision will also apply to the Army Chief.
Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Chaudhry Fawad, announced these decisions of the federal cabinet during the press conference. He said that Prime Minister expressed concerns about the electricity load shedding on Eid as the three days were also closed. The cabinet has set up a task force to review the availability of city facilities to the poor people in the major cities of the country, he said. The Prime Minister has said that matters can not proceed even if the poor do not prefer. He said that the cabinet has decided to end the discretionary fund of Prime Minister, Ministers and members of the National Assembly. In the last year, Nawaz Sharif utilized $ 21 billion discretionary funds. The President has utilized Rs 9.8 crore. Nawaz Sharif gave 30 billion rupees to the National Assembly. In such a year, an unreliable fund of 51 billion rupees was used. Prime Minister Imran Khan says that this is the money of taxpayers, which Nawaz Sharif used as kings. In the places where the billions of rupees were announced. He used the National Treasury as his Jagir.
After the Panama papers arrived, he made special announcements in the districts. The upcoming development projects will first be discussed in Parliament, and then will be approved. In the last year there was a budget of Rs 750 billion while supplementary grants of one trillion rupees were approved. The cabinet has banned it. He said that a fiscal audit of transport projects would be made. The Metro Bus of Multan, Lahore and Rawalpindi will be the first audit of the projects of Orange bus and Lahore, then the FIA will be required if necessary. Because billions of rupees have been spent on them and still billions of rupees are being spent. Information Minister said that CP is a key project to complete it. We are the members of the Government of Pakistan by the agreements. On a question, he said that the Peshawar Metro Bus project will also be audited. He said that the weekend was considered to be over. The Federal Cabinet has decided to set up the work in the government offices by deciding not to end the week’s holiday immediately. In which the federal offices have decided to take office hours from 8 am to 4 pm instead of 9 am to 5 pm. After Friday’s Friday, the appointment of government employees has also been decided to ensure. The cabinet meeting has directed to set up biometric and monitoring systems to ensure attendance in every department.
Chaudhary Fawad said that the fight between two groups in Faisalabad should not be given religious color. It is the fight of the two groups that began to be fed up and six people were injured. He said that a major campaign will be launched in Lahore, Karachi, Quetta and Peshawar throughout the country which will give Prime Minister’s Advisor for Environmental briefing next month. He said that Prime Minister expressed concerns about the electricity load shedding on Eid as the three days were also closed. The ministry has said that there was a 4000 megawatt shortfall that could have been completed, but the power distribution network had problems. The former government made Power House, but did not pay attention to the electricity delivery and distribution system. The prime minister asked for detailed briefing on this issue. The former government has left a circular date of Rs 546 billion and Rs 480 billion. These are a thousand billion rupees. He said Prime Minister set Prime Minister as Prime Minister as Prime Minister he has been the Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa before and has the required qualifications.
In response to a question, he said that the Metro Bus service will continue to shut down. However, since it is an impression that corruption in billions of rupees has been made, it will be investigated. Still the subsidy of Lahore Metro is Rs. 3 billion. Similarly, Islamabad and Multan are metro. It becomes 10 billion rupees. He said that the ministry of cadre is being erased. Its departments will be integrated into relevant ministries. He said the censorship in government TV and radio has been terminated. They have been instructed to give equal coverage to the opposition. In the official TV editorial board, PPP’s Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar and Muslim League (N) Ahmed Malik have been nominated. New boards will be set up for the ministries.
Information and broadcasting ministry will remain unchanged. Orange train plan will be completed. In case of natural disaster like earthquake, mechanisms will be prepared to provide funds emergency. The tradition of paying money like kings will be terminated. People will be assured that their money will be used in the right place. Asad Umer soon announced a package for Overseas Pakistanis. He said that Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz were given the name for the ECL so that the FIA sent the case to the Cabinet. Musharraf’s case has not sent the Cabinet yet. If the court gives any order then the government will act.
