Punjab Minister for Management & Professional Development Sardar Hassan Akhtar Moakal has said that training courses will be mandatory for the promotion of grade 17 officers. Similarly, the officers of grade 18 and above would have to attain at least six weeks training for promotion to make the departments efficient.
Presiding over a meeting of officers here on Tuesday, the minister said, "we have taken some drastic measures to end corruption in government offices."
"Now the minister would be responsible if a naib qasid of his department extorts bribe from public." The minister said that officers of remote areas would attain necessary training at district head quarters. "We have trained more than 9,000 officers during the last three years."
The Canadian government has formally showed its willingness to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on investment in Punjab to provide professional skills and training to officers and employees in far-flung areas at the district level. Moakal said the chief minister had approved establishment of a modern hostel comprising 100 rooms at a cost of Rs 1.7 million, he added.
He said the Agha Khan University and other organisations had requested to provide skill to their staff in different disciplines while the government had made compulsory professional training for the officers of grade 17 for their promotion to the next grade.