Govt announces plan for rightsizing five more ministries

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

He chaired a meeting of the Committee on Rightsizing the Federal Government (wave-IV) here, which was attended by Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan, members of the National Assembly, and federal secretaries of the relevant ministries and divisions.

At the outset, the finance minister appreciated, what he called, a “whole of the government” approach, adopted by the ministries and their in-charge ministers for successfully completing the 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 the end of the financial year. The committee was told that in the spirit of rightsizing, the Ministry of Communications had already abolished all dyeing posts.