Peshawar, April 06 (ONLINE): The Sub-Committee of the standing Committee of Senate on States and Frontier Regions on Thursday assured its support to the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in taking funds for the province, especially the Newly Merged Districts (NMD) from the federal government.
The committee’s convenor senator Dr Sania Nishter and Senator Shameem Afridi suggested e-tendering, biometric attendance for government employees and introduction of GIS system for better monitoring of schemes.
Members of the subcommittee were briefed about the ‘NMDs Development Portfolio’ procedure and utilization of funds.
CS Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, Additional Chief Secretary Zubair Qureshi and other officials were present on the occasion.
ACS Zubair Qureshi briefed the committee about the developmental schemes, expenditures, monitoring, preparation and mechanism in the merged districts.
He informed the committee that due to shortage of funds, the government was unable to carry out development work in the merged areas.
The Senate body assured to raise the funds’ issue confronted by the KP government in NMDs on a priority basis.
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