Chief Minister KPK Pervaiz Khattak said on Sunday that the real change in KP has come because all the KPK ministers have totally abolished the VIP culture and none of them carry any protocol despite huge security risks. They travel in their cars, driving themselves without hindering the traffic and without having entourage of police force around them.
He was addressing a reception given in his honour by the PTI Punjab Chapter. Khattak said that he believed in making institutions building and legislation to give permanent welfare changes in the society.
He said the KPK has passed a large numbers of laws which also included the access to information, right for services, conflict of interest bill which would make the government really accountable to the public.
He said that in 10 months KPK government had provided free medicines to the public hospitals and started and created a special fund for disabled and handicapped people. He said his party was for the poor and thus all the policies were here to remove the disparities between the rich and the poor.
He said the police reforms in KPK were an example that no other province could match as the IG police could make the CM also accountable in KPK. He said the government would soon present the Ehtesab bill to make the Ehtesab Commission independent.
Education Minister KPK Atif Khan said that PTI believed that education was the only solution to bring about real change and development in the country. The KPK is building 28 thousand schools to strengthen to "Tameer-e-schools program" which could allow donors to contribute in this gigantic task. He said that independent monitoring units were being established to check the quality of the education in schools.
Talking about ten month's performance of PTI government in KPK, Health and IT Minister Sharharam Tarakai said that there was a healthy revolution coming in KPK, especially Sehat Ka Ansaf programme which had now proven that the polio virus for the first time was negative in Peshawar.
He said that KPK was an example where instead of spending billions on promoting the ministers in advertisements, money was being spent on health and education and development of the people in KPK. He said the rest houses are being converted into tourism resorts which will generate money to be spent on education and health.
PTI Punjab President Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry said that one year performance of KPK had highlighted that instead of making roads and highways, the government was spending money on health and education sectors.
PTI Punjab General Secretary Dr Yasmin Rashid said the Punjab government should learn that its showcase projects would not convince the public but real work done in KPK would make the difference.