- Seeks Auditor General of Pakistan’s help to overcome corrupt practices
through tougher and effecient audit
PESHAWAR, January 13: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has said despite the provincial government’s remarkable reforms and initiatives for transforming the governance system, corrupt practices still prevail in pockets of certain departments and audit department should help the provincial government to overcome such practices by making the audit process tougher and efficient.
He said that present KP government has realized that meager salaries of government employees is one of the major causes of corruption and in view this fact we have decided to monetize the facilities like official vehicles and accommodation available to hardly 10 per cent of the government servants. He said, on realization of this idea, salaries of government officials would increase three to four fold and remaining 90 per cent of the government servants would also be benefitted from the scheme.
He was talking to the Auditor General of Pakistan, Rana Asad Amin and Additional Secretary of Economic Affairs Division, Islamabad, who called on him at Chief Minister’s Secretariat here on Wednesday. The Auditor General discussed matters pertaining to transparency and accountability of the provincial financial affairs with special reference to the Public Accounts Committee of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly and presented certain proposals in this connection. The Chief Minister expressed the resolve that the PTI-led KP government was fully committed to purge the services and administrative system of all kinds of corruption, favoritism and mismanagement. Meanwhile talking to a delegation of district and tehsil members of district Hangu, which called on the Chief Minister at CM Secretariat Peshawar under the leadership of MNA Khiyal Zaman Orakzai and MPA Shah Faisal, Pervez Khattak said that he had approved launching of a large housing scheme in district Hangu while proposals for constructing a small dam at Sarozai Doaba in Tehsil Tal and the power generation project on already completed Naryab Dam will be considered seriously.-PR
