59 engineers posted in local govt

LAHORE : The Punjab Local Government and Community Development (LG&CD) Department has appointed newly recruited 59 grade 17 engineers in its different local governments across the province after receiving recommendations from PPSC.

Officials said the department is in the process of improving strength of its human resource. They said as per the directions of the chief minister and policy of the government, recruitments are being made through Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) in order to ensure the recruitment process pretty transparent and merit based.

According to a notification, 59 grade 17 engineers have been given postings as metropolitan, municipal and tehsil officers (Infrastructure and Services).

Two engineers have been posted as metropolitan officers i.e. Zulqarnain Shah in Metropolitan Corporation Faisalabad, Ibrahim Kamal in Metropolitan Corporation Rawalpindi. Fifty-one municipal officers have been posted. They are: Muhammad Asif in Municipal Corporation Okara, Muhammad Aqeel Municipal in Committee Bhalwal Sargodha, Zain Ali in Municipal Committee Kahror Paka Lodharan, Awais Hussain Shah in Municipal Committee Kotli Sattian, Rawalpindi; Zeshan Ahmad in Municipal Committee Shahkot, Nankana Sahib, Muhammad Zeshan ul Haq in Municipal Corporation Kasur, Muhammad Asif Raza in Municipal Committee Khairpur Tamewali, Bahawalpur, Farooq Hussain in Municipal Committee Noshehran Virkan, Gujranwala, Mujtaba Ahmad in Municipal Committee Sohawa Jhelum, Muhammad Sagheer in Municipal Committee Shuja Abad, Multan, Omar Nawaz Khan in Municipal Corporation Ferozwala, Sheikhupura, Muhammad Tulaib Hassan in Municipal Committee Khushab, Muhammad Ali Khizar in Municipal Committee Nankana Sahib, Muhammad Tayyeb Maqsood in Municipal Committee Narowal, Muhammad Ikram Ashraf in Municipal Corporation Jhang, Saddam Hussain in Municipal Committee Mankera, Bhakar, Shehreyar Khan in Municipal Committee Mustafa Abad, Kasur, Muhammad Usman Ghani in Municipal Corporation Sheikhupura, Bilal Qesar in Municipal Corporation Gujrat, Zain Ejaz in Municipal Corporation Sialkot, Jawad Ali in Municipal Committee Kahuta, Rawalpindi, Muhammad Arslan Rafi in Municipal Committee Haroonabad, Bahawalnagar, Nabeel Ashraf in Municipal Committee Haveli Lakha, Okara, Waqar Ahmad in Municipal Committee Gakhar Mandi, Gujranwala, Mubashar Saeed in Municipal Committee Sangla Hill, Nankana Sahib, Zeshan Fareed in Municipal Committee Lodharan, Adil Shehzad in Municipal Committee Pasrur, Sialkot, Syed Sadaf Abbas Kazmi in Municipal Committee Hazru, Attock, Rana Fahad Liaqat in Municipal Committee Phool Nagar, Kasur, Imran Ishaq in Ahmadpur Siyal, Jhang, Kashif Riaz in Municipal Committee Malak Waal, Mandi Bahaudin, Muhammad Ibrar in Zafarwal ,Narowal, Muhammad Rashid Minhas Shah in Municipal Committee Karor Laal Esan, Layyeh, Faraz Ahwaz in Municipal Committee Kamalia, Toba Tek Singh, Farrukh Abbad in Municipal Committee Bhera, Sargodha, Ali Mehran Khan in Municipal Committee Tala Gang, Chakwal, Hafiz Muhammad Waseem in Municipal Committee Kot Chutta, Dera Ghazi Khan, Muhammad Tehseen Khalid Municipal Officer Sillanwali, Sargodha, Muhammad Usman in Municipal Committee Kharian, Gujrat, Arshad Shafiq in Municipal Committee Khurianwala, Faisalabad, Ghulam Qanber in Municipal Committee Chowk Azam, Layyeh, Nauman Zahid in Municipal Committee Lalian, Chiniot, Muhammad Ahmad in Municipal Committee Kunjah, Gujrat, Muhammad Faizan ul Haq in Municipal Committee Fateh Jang, Attock, Mubashar Bajwa in Municipal Committee Sudhar, Faisalabad, Syed Waqar Haider Zaidi in Municipal Corporation Rahimyar Khan, Muhammad Yasir in Municipal Committee Liaqatpur, Rahimyar Khan, Muhammad Omar Farooq in Municipal Committee Gujjar Khan, Rawalpindi, Hafiz Zeshan Zia in Municipal Committee, Chua Saidan Sahah, Chakwal, Muhammad Waqas Akram in Municipal Committee Yazman, Bahawalpur.

Seven officers have been posted as tehsil officers i.e. Abid Fareed in Tehsil Council Dunyapur, Lodharan, Ghulam Hamza in Tehsil Council Mailsi, Vehari, Hafiz Talat Mehmood in Tehsil Council Toba Tek Singh, Muhammad Talha Hussain in Tehsil Council Bhakar, Muhammad Uzair Arshad in Tehsil Council Burewala, Vehari, Sajid Raza in Tehsil Council Chishtian, Bahawalnagar and Ehsan Ullah in Tehsil Council Gujrat.

The postings of the newly-recruited officers would help reduce the work pressure and burden on the officers who are holding additional charges.

LG&CD Secretary Dr Ahmad Javed Qazi said that Chief Minister Sardar Usman Ahmad Buzdar has extended best wishes to the officers and hoped that they would serve the people with best of their energies, noble intentions and capabilities in the local governments so the vision of the government to strengthen LGs in Punjab could be transformed into reality.

According to Dr. Ahmad Javed Qazi, his department has received recommendation letters from PPSC for more 102 officers that would soon be on board and would further help the organisation improve its working and service delivery.