5 ministries told to prepare right-sizing plan in 2 weeks

ISLAMABAD: The federal government has directed the relevant ministries to prepare an implementation plan for the Phase-1 right-sizing.

The plan will be considered in the meeting of Right-sizing Committee this week.

The Institutional Reforms Cell of Cabinet Division has issued an Office Memorandum to five ministries stating Federal Cabinet had approved Phase-1 right-sizing proposals on August 27.

The Cabinet has directed a plan to implement the approved proposals be prepared in two weeks.

Among the five ministries in which right-sizing is being done are Ministry of Industry and Production, Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom, Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan, Ministry of National Health and Ministry of States and Frontier Regions.

The ministries have been directed that along with the action plan, a specific timeframe for the goals should also be determined.

Ten general suggestions have been approved under the right-sizing programme. The Establishment Division and Finance Division have been directed to eliminate 60 percent of vacant regular posts i.e. 1,5o,ooo posts.

All the ministries have been ordered to outsource general and non-core services (cleaning etc.) to reduce number of posts in Grade-1 to Grade-16.

The Finance Division has been asked to abolish all contingency posts. The Establishment Division has been directed to amend the Civil Servants Act, 1973.

Capital Administration and Development Division should be abolished. The Ministry of States and Frontier Regions and the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs will be merged.

The Jammu and Kashmir Rehabilitation Organisation will be abolished. The ministry has been directed to reduce staff.

The IT Ministry has been directed to reduce the rate of officers and employees from 1:20 to 1:2.5.

NTC process will be reduced by 50 percent, while NTIB will be abolished.

In the Ministry of Industry and Production, National Productivity Research, Pakistan Industrial Assistance Centre, Technology and Skill Upgradation Company and Karachi Tools, Dies and Moulds Centre will be closed.

National Fertilizer Company and National Fertilizer Marketing Limited will be closed. Utility Stores will be closed or privatised. Ninty-eight vacant posts of Ministry of National Health PMDC will be eliminated. Sheikh Zayed Hospital and Post Graduate Medical Institute will be handed over to provincial government. Directorate of Malaria Control will be integrated into ICT.

Federal Government TB Centre Rawalpindi will be handed over to Punjab Government, National Institute for Population Welfare will be closed and 550 NIH vacancies will be eliminated.