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The government development projects belong to every citizen, therefore, for
successful and timely execution of such projects demand that the society must
be involved for projects management monitoring. Dr. Abdul Hafeez Shaikh
Federal Minister for Privatisation & Investment stated this while addressing
the inaugural session of a seminar on 'Project Management' held under the
auspices of Iqra University Islamabad campus here today.
Dr. Hafeez Shaikh said that the District governments being closer to the
people could play vital and effective role in this regard. There was a need
to enhance our human resource capacity to identify, develop, evaluate, adopt
modern techniques, allocate finances, implement, and to complete the projects
by making them operational according to our needs, he stated.
The Minister further stated that Pakistan's Annual Development Program of
about Rs.200 billion assigns high value for employment generation and more
revenues for the government, which could only be achieved by making the
government more efficient.
He suggested that every government institution should display out side
their premises in a prominent way, the figure of financial grant/ support
being received by them for their projects along with the staff strength
involved for executing these projects so that the people could ask questions
regarding the projects meant for their development.
Replying to a question, the Minister said that tremendous acceleration has
been noticed during the past five years in the privatisation process of public
sector entities. Thrice attempts to privatise PTCL in the past could not
succeed, however, this time it would be successful, he hoped.
Earlier, Sr. Sardar Ansari in his paper said that the difficulties should
be removed at the identification stage of the projects, which could ensure
the timely completion of the projects. Mr. Hunaid Lakhani, Chancellor Iqra
University and the Vice Chancellor were also present during the seminar.