NWFP Minister for Finance, Mohammad Humayun Khan on Friday took serious notice of the slow pace of revenue receipts on the part of some of the provincial departments and directed for ensuring 100 percent targets in the revenue collection.
He was presiding over a meeting to discuss position of the revenue receipts for the year 2008 by the different line departments, in the committee room of Finance Department on Friday.
Secretary Finance Ziaur Rahman, SMBR Ehsanullah Khan, Secretary Irrigation Khalid Jilani, Secretary Works and Services Mohammad Riaz, AIG Traffic Police Mohammad Iqbal, additional secretaries and other concerned officers attended the meeting.
The minister finance commended the performance of those departments, which had achieved the targets within the stipulated period and stated that such efforts of the officers concerned would be acknowledged. He identified several drawbacks in the existing system of revenue collection and misuse of the government installations especially in the collection of abiana and categorically stated that he would foil all such efforts on the part of the government employees.
The minister also took notice of the shortfalls in the revenue collection and asked for expediting the drive with better working mechanism. Meanwhile, addressing the award-distribution ceremony of the performance based budgeting arranged by the Finance Department in the conference room of the administration department, the minister finance stated that the trend of giving awards to those government workers who had shown better performance would be continued.
The provincial ministers Liaqat Shabab and Salim Khan Chitrali, MPA Abdul Akbar Khan, Secretaries finance and education and a large number of government officers attended the ceremony.
The minister expressed pleasure over the bid of the department of finance for monitoring the services of different departments in the budgetary sectors and the selection for awards. He said the same would encourage the awardees more and they would work with extra devotion. Later, the minister gave away shields and certificates to male and female officials selected from all the districts in NWFP.
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