Sindh Chief Secretary Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah on Friday ordered the concerned authorities to ensure that all development schemes under ADP (Annual Development Programme) are completed by June 30, 2019. Presiding over an important meeting, he asked the administrative secretaries, divisional commissioners and deputy commissioners to maintain close coordination with the Finance and Planning and Development departments to resolve the day to day problems for timely completion of ADP Schemes 2018-19.
Mumtaz Shah advised the officers concerned to ensure strict monitoring of the ADP Schemes and get the encroachment removed from the illegally possessed/occupied area, in the larger national interest. The Chief Secretary categorically alerted that no unnecessary revision of the development schemes or delay would be tolerated. He emphasised that accomplishment must be accorded within stipulated time otherwise, he warned, due disciplinary action would be taken against the failure and delinquency.
Earlier, Secretary P&D Dr Shireen Mustafa briefed on all 251 ADP Schemes of Shaheed Benazirabad Division in which 66 schemes are of Nausheroferoze district, 53 of Sanghar district and 132 of district Shaheed Benazirabad. She said the schemes belonged to the departments of Agriculture, Auqaf, Board of Revenue, Education, Health, Home, Irrigation, Environment, Forest & Wildlife Fisheries & Livestock, Local Government, Public Health Engineering, Rural Development, Law & Parliamentary Affairs, Social Welfare, Sports and Youth, Population Welfare, Works & Services and Zakat & Usher.
Among others, following officials attended the meeting: Secretary Schools Qazi Shahid Parvez, Secretary Colleges Parvez Seher, Secretary Finance Najam A Shah, Secretary General Admin Zulfiqar Ali Shah, Secretary Implementation Riaz Ahmed Siddiqui, Secretary Boards & Universities Riaz Qureshi, Secretary Zakat Nawaz Shaikh, Secretary Energy Musaddiq A Khan, Secretary Rehabilitation Riaz Soomro, Commissioner Land Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah, Deputy Commissioners and other relevant officers.