Perveen Masood Bhatti paid a surprise visit at Model Bazar Bahawalpur
BAHAWALPUR(PR)MNA & Member standing committee for Information &
Broadcasting Begum Perveen Masood Bhatti paid a surprise visit at Model Bazar
Bahawalpur. She directed the concerned administration to ensure
the supply of commodities, fruits and vegetables at Government fixed prices.
She said that the standardized and fine quality commodities of life should be
provided at low cost so that the masses could be facilitated by the subsidy
provided by the Government.
"The hoarders and black marketers will be dealt strictly
as per laws", She added.
MNA Begum Perveen Masood Bhatti checked the cleanliness of
the model bazar and directed the staff to perform their duties with dedication
and devotion. During her visit, MNA Begum Perveen Masood Bhatti checked the
rate lists and directed to place rate lists at visible places to the consumers.
ADC Mrs. Imrana Ajmal will visit revenue
offices to monitor the revenue targets
BAHAWALPUR(PR)Additional District Collector, Mrs. Imrana Ajmal will visit revenue
offices to monitor the revenue targets, review overall revenue work and
checking of revenue record etc.
As per monthly schedule, She will visit: - Ahmadpur East on
8th of September, Bahawalpur Sadar on 10th of September, Hasilpur on 15th of
September, Ahmadpur East on 17th of September, Bahawalpur city on 22nd of
September, Khairpur Tamewali on 24th of September, Hasilpur on 29th of
September and Khairpur Tamewali revenue office on 30th of September.
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Rescue 1122released monthly efficiency report of the previous month
BAHAWALPUR(PR)Divisional Emergency Officer Rescue 1122, Dr. Asif Rahim
Channer has released monthly efficiency report of the previous month. As per
details: - the control room received 33262 phone calls and among them 2026 were
the emergency related calls. The average time to reach the emergency spot was 6.92
minutes. Dr. Asif Rahim Channer maintained that the 609 road accidents, 21 fire
related incidents, 67 quarrels, 2 incidents of drowning, 1032 medical emergency
and 295 other rescue related incidents were treated in the last month by the
rescue 1122 Bahawalpur.
Parliamentarians’ caucus planned to protect child-rights
LAHORE(PR)It has been
planned to set up Punjab Assembly members’ caucus for effective protection of
child-rights in the province. This caucus would be established and run through chief
provincial commissioner for children of ombudsman office, and will be comprising
of parliamentarians, having deep interest in wellbeing of the children. While evaluating
different laws relevant to the protection of rights of the children, this caucus
would work as a policy-platform to guide and strengthen the governmental
efforts; as well as different stakeholders, to ensure that relevant laws are
fully implemented. Similarly, members of this caucus will maintain liaison with
the line-departments to help adopt holistic approach in policy-making.
This was decided
in a meeting of stakeholders from public and private sector organizations including
Chairman Punjab Education Foundation Engr. Qamar ul Islam Raja. Punjab’s chief
commissioner for children Ms. Nasreen Farooq Ayub presided over the meeting and
apprised the participants about proposed role of the parliamentarians’ caucus
in providing conducive atmosphere to the children.
While talking about the importance of child-rights
in the context of education, Chairman PEF Qamar ul Islam said that education
strengthens the children with knowledge and forward-looking approach to excel in
life. The whole society should come forward to ensure that no child is left
behind. It is very important that the media, religious leaders, educationists
and other stakeholders should sensitize the people about the strong role of the
society in providing child-friendly atmosphere to the children for their composite
growth.
Mr. Raja observed
that today’s children are leaders of tomorrow; but in order to develop them as future-leaders,
we should ensure that they have equal access to the basic right of education. It
is commendable that Punjab Education Foundation has provided free schooling
facilities to 21 lakh most-deserving children in 36 districts of the province. This
has also helped in the eradication of child-labor, he said. The civil society should
support the government in achieving target of 100 percent enrollment by 2018. In
this regard, the second phase of education sector reforms program is aimed to improve
the overall quality of education. In fact, Punjab government has prioritized
the protection of the rights of the children through education-promotion, he
concluded.
The meeting was
also addressed by different MPAs, and Ehsan Ghani, Abdul Basit Khan, Syed Ali
Gillani, Miss Shaheen Ateeq ur Rehman & others, who presented their suggestions
about the proposed role of parliamentarians caucus.2-day meeting for consultation
on the recommendations of working groups of 9th National Finance
Commission AwardLAHORE(PR)A 2-day meeting for consultation on the recommendations of working groups of 9th National Finance Commission Award started at Civil Secretariat. Provincial Minister for Finance Dr. Ayesha Ghaus Pasha is leading the delegation from Punjab. Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah, Finance Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa Muzaffar Said, Finance Secretaries of the four provinces NFC members and representatives of federal government participated in the meeting. Punjab Finance Minister Dr. Ayesha Ghaus Pasha formally inaugurated the session. She informed that federal government in the first meeting of 9th NFC Award last year distributed the provinces into four working groups and assigned them responsibilities of preparing reports on resource mobilization at federal and provincial levels, devolved vs integrated tax structure, efficiency and expenditure analysis at federal and provincial level and rationalization of subsidy and grants. She said that provinces have prepared their reports in this regard. Sindh and Punjab presented their reports in today’s session. Additional Secretary Budget Saifullah Dogar presented report on resource mobilization on behalf of Punjab which was supported by members of all groups. Later Sindh presented report on tax structure on provincial level. Addressing the meeting, Ayesha Ghaus Pasha said that NFC Award is lifeline for provinces. She said that consensus recommendation will be made a part of the report while other proposals will also be attached with the report so that views of all stakeholders could reach the federal government. He said that targets of income in the report of Punjab are realistic. Chief Minister Sindh, Syed Murad Ali Shah said that NFC Award is a constitutional responsibility. He said that recommendation should be given final shape at early as possible. Finance Minister KPK Muzaffar Said welcomed consultative meeting by Punjab and stressed the need for early progress with regard to NFC award.
TRACKERS TO BE INSTALLED IN GOVERNMENT VEHICLES
LAHORE(PR)A
meeting to review the technical aspects of implementation of the CM’s directive
regarding installation of trackers in government vehicles was held today in Civil
Secretariat Lahore. Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Punjab Shamail Ahmad
Khawaja presided over the meeting.
The
meeting decided to implement the decision regarding installation of trackers as
a phased project. In the first phase, 2575 government vehicles being used in various
government departments including the Administrative departments and attached
field offices will be equipped with the latest kind of trackers. Services &
General Administration Department will sponsor the project while Punjab Information
Technology Board (PITB) will be the execution authority for this project. PC-I of this project will also be prepared by
PITB and the funds will be allocated by Planning & Development Department
for this purpose. It was decided in the meeting that the autonomous bodies will
have to install the trackers in the vehicles in their use on their own
expenses. ACS directed the participants of the meeting to install tracker
system preferably in the government vehicles of 2006 model and onward models of
the vehicles. The companies assigned to install trackers will not be allowed to
place the relevant data in their main server but PITB will safeguard the
location based data for control access in its own central data centre at Arfa
Karim IT Tower, Lahore. Managing Director Punjab Procurement Regularity
Authority Ali Bahadur Qazi, Director General E-Governance PITB Sajid Latif, Senior
Programme Manager PITB Qasim Bhatti, Additional Secretary Transport Wing
S&GAD Ashiq Hussain Olakh and MTO Ijaz Karim participated in the meeting
besides other relevant senior officers.
UHS DECLARES MEDICAL
COLLEGES’ ENTRANCE TEST RESULT
LAHORE(By our Bureau Chief)The
University of Health Sciences (UHS) Lahore declared the result of Medical
Entrance Test 2016 for admission to medical and dental colleges of the Punjab
on Tuesday.
A
total of 54908 candidates appeared in the Entrance Test held on August 28, out
of which 29177 scored 60 per cent and above marks. As many as 7517 scored 50 to
59 per cent whereas 6621 candidates secured 40 to 49 per cent marks. A total of
11593 candidates scored less than 40 per cent marks.
Umar
Maqbool s/o Muhammad Maqbool from Faisalabad got the first position securing
1082/1100 marks whereas Rabbia Irfan d/o Muhammad Irfan ul Haq Khan of
Gujranwala got second position securing 1076/1100. The third position is shared
by three candidates, Arsalan Shaukat s/o Shaukat Ali of Lahore, Alleza Ashraf
d/o Muhammad Ashraf and Saba Fatima d/o Ikram Ullah, both of Sahiwal district,
who scored 1070/1100 marks each.
The
eligible candidates will compete for 3405 MBBS and 216 BDS seats in 20 public
sector medical and dental colleges respectively. The admission forms for
government medical and dental colleges will be available from October 03 to
October 15. All those candidates who have secured 82 per cent and above
aggregate marks according to the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council’s formula
will be eligible to apply for admission on open merit basis. The first
selection list will be displayed on October 28 whereas classes in all public
sector medical colleges of the Punjab will commence on November 14.
NO LAXITY IN POLIO ERADICATION: KHAWAJA SALMAN
LAHORE(PR)Advisor to Chief Minister
Khawaja Salman Rafique reviewed the implementation status of National Emergency
Action Plan for Polio Eradication in the provincial Emergency Operation Center
in the Directorate General Health Services. He emphasized the need to
strengthen vaccination at inter-provincial borders.
Punjab EOC Coordinator Dr.
Munir Ahmed gave detailed briefing on Punjab’s challenges especially the
movement pattern of migrant population in Lahore and Rawalpindi. He said 36
permanent transit points were operational with dedicated staff working 24 hours
to vaccinate children coming from other provinces. Punjab faces a challenge of
importation of virus from polio endemic areas.
Khawaja Salman said, “Punjab
EPI team must start homework for introduction of Rubella vaccine in routine
immunization by 2018-19. The preparatory work must be completed this year.”He
also reviewed progress on introduction of Rota Virus vaccine being introduced
in Punjab’s six districts from next month and the validation status of Mother
and Neonatal Tetanus elimination in Punjab. A high level delegation from WHO
and UNICEF will visit Punjab next month to validate Punjab request for MNT
elimination status.
Khawaja Salman Rafique analyzed
list of Punjab’s weak union councils assuring a follow up with districts as well
as personal visits. He emphasized that Punjab cannot afford laxity despite very
good results in polio and assured support in resolution of administrative
logjams.
PRIME MINISTER’S NATIONAL HEALTH
INSURANCE PROGRAMME TO BE LAUNCHED IN PUNJAB DURING THE END OF THIS MONTH----
IN FIRST PHASE FOUR DISTRICTS RAHIM YAR KHAN, NAROWAL, KHANEWAL AND SARGODHA
INCLUDED
LAHORE(PR)Advisor to Chief Minster
Punjab on Health Kh. Salman Rafique has said that Prime Minister’s National
Health Insurance Programme would be formally launched in Punjab by the end of this
month for which all arrangements have been finalized. He said that in first
phase four districts i.e. Rahim Yar Khan, Narowal, Khanewal and Sargodha are
included in the Health Insurance Scheme.
He stated this while
chairing a high level meeting along with State Minister for Health Saira Afzal
Tarar to review the arrangements of launching the health insurance programme,
at Civil Secretariat, here today. The officers of Ministry of Health from
Islamabad, Secretary Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Punjab Najam
Ahmed Shah, Special Secretary Health Dr. Sajid Mahmood Chauhan, CEO Punjab Health
Initiative Management Company Dr. Saira Siddique and other concerned officers
attended the meeting. During the meeting the launching plan of the insurance
scheme in Punjab was finalized. It was briefed by the CEO PHIMC that the
insurance cards distribution in Rahim Yar Khan has started. The scheme will be
officially inaugurated by the end of September in Rahim Yar Khan and within 2
months in the remaining districts the distribution of cards would be completed.
Kh. Salman Rafique said that in the four nominated districts 1.3 million
families would get free medical facilities under Health Insurance Programme. He
said that Punjab government has allocated Rs.1.5 billion for the scheme which
would be spent through Prime Minister’s National Health Insurance Programme. He
said that districts monitoring officers would be recruited to monitor the whole
system. He said that in next phase four more districts would be included in
Health Insurance Programme including Lahore and Faisalabad. Kh. Salman Rafique
revealed that Punjab government is planning to provide health cover to all the poor
population of the 36 districts of Punjab in coming years.
our forefathers and brave solders of Pakistan army had rendered unprecedented sacrifices in war 1965:Khalil Tahir Sandhu
LAHORE(PR)Provincial Minister for Human Rights & Minorities Affairs Khalil Tahir Sandhu has said that our forefathers and brave solders of Pakistan army had rendered unprecedented sacrifices in war 1965. The nation jointly defeated the enemy. He said that our youth should defend the geographical, economical and ideological boundaries of the nation with the sword of education and modern technology. He said that without promoting education, it is impossible for a country to make progress. It is need of the hour to achieve prominent position among international community with the help of modern technology. We should promote the culture of science and research across the country which help to illuminate the candles of education. He said that the whole nation should give strict message to the internal and external enemies of the country. The whole nation have faced sacrifices in war against terrorism. Promotion of education is the only way to eradicate intolerance and extremism from the society. He expressed these views while talking at a ceremony regarding Defense Day at Unique Group of Institutes here today. He said that Unique Group of Institutes is playing positive role to deliver quality education across the province. Every year students from Unique Group achieved prominent position in exams of matric and intermediate. He appreciated the efforts of highly educated faculty members of Unique Group. He said that the teachers are the role model for their students. It is the only result of their hardships that today our youth is marching towards prosperity. Chairman Unique Group of Institutes Mr. Abdul Manan has said that Unique Group is working to root out the darkness of ignorance and disappointment from the society. Unique team is utilizing all its resources to promote education in all segments of the society. While addressing the ceremony, other participants paid tributes to the martyrs of Pak Army and appreciated the role of armed forces in 1965 war and recent war against terrorism. National songs, plays and tabloos were also performed in the ceremony. At the end Provincial Minister distributed awards among the students. Dr. Atique from Lahore College University, Prof. Amjad Ali Khan from Unique Group of Institutes, Prof. Jehanzeb Malik and Fariha Arshad were also present in the ceremony. Dreadful
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