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Five ministries in focus as govt moves to fourth phase of rightsizing


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ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb announced Friday that during the fourth wave of rightsizing, five ministries namely Ministry of Communications, Railways, Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety, Revenue Division, and Petroleum Division and their attached departments would be examined for rightsizing.

He was chairing the meeting of the Committee on Rightsizing the Federal Government (Wave-IV).

He highlighted and appreciated what he called a “whole of the government” approach adopted by the ministries and their in-charge ministers for successfully completing first three waves of the rightsizing exercise aimed at examining 43 ministries and nearly 400 attached departments of the federal government for the purpose of rightsizing before June 30.

Aurangzeb also said the implementation of the decisions taken by the rightsizing committee and subsequently endorsed by the federal cabinet so far would be followed up for implementation by the sub-committee. The main committee would intervene only in case of matters requiring escalation, he added.

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During the subsequent proceedings, Ministry of Communications gave a detailed presentation to the Cabinet body on the functions, organizational structure and possibilities of semi-privatization and PPP models for various projects and initiatives of the Ministry.

The committee was told that in the spirit of rightsizing, the Ministry of Communications had already abolished all dyeing posts. 

Earlier, on Jan 7, the finance minister had said that 60 per cent of vacant regular posts (that have not come in payroll), which stood at 150,000, would be abolished or declared as dying posts, creating a real financial impact. “All is being done after proper ratification from the federal cabinet.”

Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan also gave a perspective on the core functions of the ministry and how its departments, particularly National Highway Authority (NHA), could be made profitable.

He said the NHA could become a major revenue spinner for the government if its resources were diverted to construction of revenue-based motorways like the M-6 leading from Sukkur to Karachi port.

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