PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cabinet on Tuesday reviewed the overall law and order situation in the province and expressed satisfaction over the measures taken by police and security forces.
The cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minster Mahmood Khan, was also attended by the Provincial Chief Secretary, Inspector General of Police, Additional Chief Secretary, Senior Member Board of Revenue and Administrative Secretaries of various Government Departments.
Later addressing a news conference after the meeting Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif said that law and order situation arising out in Swat a few days back was affectively tackled owing to the timely measures adopted by the law enforcement agencies. “We assure that there is nothing to worry as the government will maintain its writ at all costs and no compromise will be made on the solidarity of the country, safety of the people”, Saif assured.
He termed the news reports of militants hideouts in Swat as “false and fabricated”, saying that the ceasefire with TTP is intact. He further said that there are some groups which are inimical to the TTP’s peace accord and their involvement in the terrorism related incidents in the province could not be ruled out.
Barrister Saif informed that the cabinet approved enhancing the minimum rates of wages as Rs26000 per month for different categories of workers working in all government industrial establishments of the province with effect from July 1, 2022. He said the KP Government is aware of hardships faced by the labor community due to high inflation and taking all possible measures within the ambit of the available resources to provide relief to the downtrodden segment of the society.
The cabinet also approved extension in the tenure of Mukhtiar Khan of Usharai Dara District Dir Upper for further two years as non-official member of the Forest Development Corporation (FDC) Price Committee to smoothly run the affairs of the committee.
Similarly, the cabinet accorded approval to declare Bashqar Gol Area of District Upper Chitral as Biosphere Reserve under the KP Wildlife and Biodiversity (Protection, Preservation, Conservation and Management) Act, 2015. The Biosphere Reserve consists of 89,374 hectares that provides prime habitat for certain wild animals including Snow Leopard, Himalyan Brown Bear, Himalyan Lynx, Cape Hare, Red Fox, Himalyan Ibex and Tibetan Wolf etc.
The provincial cabinet declared Shahi Nagar Ghoor Dara of Daggar Sub-Division of Buner, in the Buner Wildlife Division, as Community Game Reserve under the Wildlife and Biodiversity Act, 2015.
The cabinet also approved the KPFactories Rules, 2022 to regulate the matters with regard to labour in factories. The cabinet also accorded approval to withdraw its earlier approval with regard to the appointment of Manzoor Ahmad as Chief Executive Officer of KP Transmission and Grid System Company (KPT&GSC) and allowed the Energy and Power Department to float fresh advertisement for the said post as per the laid down procedure.
The provincial cabinet approved the Minimum Support Price of wheat crop 2022-23 as Rs2600/40kg as worked out by the Cost Production Committee on the basis of survey conducted throughout the province. The Minimum Support Price of wheat crop for the last year 2021-22 was Rs2200/40kg. The recommendations of the Provincial Government will now be shared with the Federal Ministry of National Food Security & Research.
The cabinet also approved the establishment of Darul Aman Crisis Centre in place of the Working Women Hostel Hayatabad, regularization of employees of the District Governance and Community Development, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mines Rules, 2022 and provision of 107 acres land for the security fencing of the Mohmand Dam.
Referring to the demands of the candidates viz-a-viz holding of PMS and CSS exams simultaneously, the cabinet decided to refer the matter to KP Public Service Commission for reviewing the PMS exam schedule enabling the candidates to appear in both the exams.
