LAHORE, March 1:The 51st provincial cabinet meeting, which was held under the chair of Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar at his office, approved an amendment in Punjab Civil Servants Act, 1974 and the cabinet unanimously reserved 32% job quota for south Punjab. The CM directed the committee to present recommendations for reserving job quotas for other backward districts. The cabinet approved to amend West Pakistan Rules under Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961 and further decided to include the clause of an oath about the finality of Prophethood (PBUH). The marrying couples would have to testify their belief in the finality of Prophethood (PBUH) at the time of their Nikkah.
The cabinet gave in-principle approval to lease out state lands for corporate forming under CPEC and the CM directed to constitute a ministerial committee to devise lease rules. 500 to 5000 acres of land would be utilized for this purpose to create job opportunities and to modernize the agriculture sector for food security. The CM directed to submit a policy for giving proprietary rights to the dwellers of katchiabadis in the next meeting while the cabinet also approved the Punjab Sahulat Bazar Authority Act, 2021 to permanently establish insafsahulat bazaars up to tehsil level to provide essential items to the consumers on subsidized rates. The chief minister and industries minister would be the chairman and vice-chairman of the authority.
The cabinet forwarded the issue of determination of eligibility and constitution of the search committee for posting vice-chancellor of University of Health Science, Lahore to the law department and accorded approval to amendment in Punjab Regularization of Service Act, 2018. Under it, it has been decided to amend rules to make permanent the contract employees of some departments. – PR
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