LAHORE: The Punjab government on Friday lifted ban on sanctioned seats for constables and traffic police and allowed two new 16-grade Risaldar seats in the Border Military Police in Rajanpur and recruitment for vacant BMP seats in Dera Ghazi Khan.

       The approval was accorded by the Cabinet Standing Committee in its 60th meeting on Finance and Development. The meeting was presided over by Punjab Finance Minister Makhdoom Hashim Jawan Bakht and attended by Chief Secretary Jawad Rafique Malik, Finance Secretary Iftikhar Ali Saho, Planning and Development Board Chairman Abdullah Khan Sumbal and others.

       More than 19 recommendations from various departments were presented in the committee meeting. The committee also lifted ban on recruitment from various seats scale one to 15 in the Planning and Development Board besides extending the period for ongoing appointments in the Public Private Partnership Authority.

       It also approved the lifting of the ban on recruitment to the technical assistance and special monitoring unit in the Phase-II of the Literacy and Non-Formal Basic Education Department’s Advanced Quality Alternative Learning Project, of the JICA.

       The meeting instructed the Finance Department to provide proper justification for approving the committee’s reservations for the approval of technical allowances for engineers in various departments while the recommendations of the Communications Department were directed to be discussed in the Cabinet Committee.

       Published in Dawn, July 17th, 2021