Punjab approves legal amendments to regulate app-based taxi service, others

LAHORE: The 18th meeting of the Standing Committee on Legislative Business was held at the Civil Secretariat which was chaired by Provincial Minister for Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Social Welfare Raja Basharat.

Minister for Labour Anser Majeed Khan, Minister for Sports Timoor Ahmed, Chief Secretary Azam Azam Suleman, Law Secretary Nazir Ahmed Gajana and other officers concerned attended the meeting.

The meeting accorded amendments to the Service Rules of the Intelligence Cadre of the Special Branch of Police, LDA Land Use Rules 2014 for the installation of power plant and in the Motor Vehicle Ordinance 1965 to regulate the app-based taxi service in Punjab.

The Wildlife Department was also given permission to organise blackbuck, chinkara and Neel Gai hunting trophies in Cholistan and to reconstitute the Punjab Social Security Health Management Company's board of directors. The committee gave go ahead to the Excise Department to sign service level agreement for computerisation of tax on immoveable property in six districts of Punjab. The Local Government Department was also allowed to nominate the board of directors of the Dera Ghazi Khan Waste Management Company and to sign up an MoU between the administration of the Chinese city of Qingdao and municipal corporation of Faisalabad.

Meanwhile, Provincial Minister of Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Social Welfare Raja Bashart visited the Data Durbar Shelter Home and asked about the problems there from its residents.

Responding to journalists' questions on the occasion, the law minister said that Chief Minister Sardar Usman Bazdar had given confidence to the Punjab Police to work independently. The law and order situation is under control, but it is usual fact that the crime graph kept going up and down. He said robbery cases were being traced in a day.

The law minister inspected different areas of the shelter home and also checked the quality of food provided to the passengers. Speaking to the media on the occasion, he said that the concept of shelters was taken from the state of Madina for which philanthropists were supporting the government.