NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani approved a competitive contractual package for the professors, Associate Professors and Assistant Professors to be recruited for the Gomal Medical College, Saidu Medical College, and Khyber Girls Medical College etc in the province.
Under the new package, professors would get Rs 150,000, Associate Professors would get Rs 100,000 and Assistant Professors would get Rs 80,000. This would be a temporary contractual arrangement. The chief minister said that the new attractions would attract highly qualified teaching staff to the new medical colleges in the province and would ultimately lead to quality medical education in these colleges.
Decisions to this effect were made in a high level meeting at Chief Minister's Secretariat Peshawar on Thursday morning. Chief Secretary Ejaz Ahmad Qureshi, Acting Addl: Chief Secretary and other high-ranking officers attended the meeting. The regular professors would get the benefit as approved by chief minister during his previous meetings. The regular professors would get Rs 50,000, Associate Professors would get Rs 30,000 and the Assistant Professors would get Rs 20,000 in addition to their existing emoluments. However, these additional benefits would be enjoyed by the professors for basic medical sciences.
The chief minister directed that the finance department should immediately sanction posts for the Gomal Medical College so that the academic process is not hindered. The meeting decided to form a recruitment committee to recruit teaching staff for the Gomal Medical College. The chief minister directed that the process should not be unnecessarily lengthy. It should be easy and the process should be completed with no time.
The chief minister further directed to tackle the promotional matters of various grades of professors and teaching staff and it should be expedited. The chief minister directed to take up the promotion of doctors and make a decision. Doctors belonged to a noble profession. They are Maseehas and therefore they should do justice to their professions, the chief minister remarked.
The chief minister further directed to expedite PC-I and other allied construction work on Nowshera Hospital, Cardiology Centre Peshawar. Saidu and Gomal Medical Colleges. These projects had been approved by ECNEC. Tendering should be floated immediately and the work should be distributed in packages, the meeting agreed for the expeditious completion of construction work.
The chief minister said that his government had already approved the provision of necessary pre-requisites for the Gomal and Saidu Medical Colleges so that these projects should get a nod from the PMDC. The Gomal Medical College's building should have all the essential requirements including the teaching hall and laboratory and the existing school should be shifted to a rented building. He approved Rs 11 million and asked the Finance Department to immediately release the amount. He directed the Home department to provide display arms and equipment for the Museum of Gomal Medical College.
The Principal of GMC was entrusted with additional responsibilities as project director who would get additional allowance for his new assignment in addition to his existing responsibilities. He asked the administration of Saidu and Gomal Medical Colleges to visit, Khyber Girls Medical College to copy the placement of incentives and mode of teaching in their respective Mecial Colleges.
He also approved Rs 5 million in addition for the building renovation of the Gomal Medical College to make it in consonance with the requirements of PMDC. The chief minister said that his government has ensured the provision of resources to institutions, however, delaying in implementation was really hurting him. He said that if there was any delay on the part of any government department, it should be brought to his notice so that a stern action should be initiated against the responsible.
The chief minister agreed to provide house requisition facility to the teaching staff of Gomal Medical College and approved Rs 1 million for magazine, Rs 1 million for research project and Rs 0.2 million for the students who got medals.
Durrani said that he wanted to improve the condition of teaching hospitals in Peshawar. These hospitals should be scientifically and skilfully managed so that the benefit of the services in these hospitals should be availed the ailing humanity. The Chief Executives of these hospitals should be vibrant skilful and good managers. The proposed new Chief Executives who would be paid heavily would be required to come up to the expectations for efficiently managing these hospitals.
Durrani asked for a meeting between Principal of Gomal Medical College and Finance Department so that the required requisites should be fulfilled immediately. He said that there should be no leniency and no shirking of responsibilities. The decisions made would be for all times and no laxity in the implementation of these decisions would be tolerated. The Finance department was bound to provide resources for meeting all the requirements of Gomal Medical College so that the college should get recognition from the PMDC once for all.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has directed the Finance department to immediately release resources for the clearance of advertisements dues of newspapers. He asked the finance and P&D department to sit with the Secretary Information and work out a mechanism for the clearance of advertisement dues in lump sum.
In future there should be a clear mechanism for allocating of fund for all the projects under the head of advertisements so that the newspapers should not go to post and pillar for getting payment of the services, they paid to the provincial government in term of advertising. All projects should have a provision for advertisement and the payment of all such advertisements should be made within a month or so, so that the payment does not swell to unmanageable proportion. Similar arrangements should be made by the district governments as well so that no government departments default on this front.
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