Punjab lists ban for recruitment of constables, traffic police

LAHORE: Punjab government Friday lifted ban on sanctioned seats for constables and traffic police allowing two new Grade 16 Risaldar seats in the Border Military Police (BMP) in Rajanpur and recruitments on vacant BMP seats in DG Khan.

The approval was given in the 60th meeting of the Cabinet Standing Committee on Finance and Development. The meeting at CM Secretariat was chaired by Punjab Finance Minister Makhdoom Hashim Jawan Bakht and attended by Chief Secretary Punjab Jawad Rafique, Secretary Finance Iftikhar Ali Saho, Chairman Planning & Development (P&D) Board Abdullah Sanbal, officers of the concerned departments while Advisor to the Chief Minister for Economic Affairs Dr Salman Shah attended through video link. More than 19 recommendations from various departments were presented in the committee meeting.

The meeting also lifted the ban on recruitment from various seats scale 1 to 15 in the P&D Board besides extending the period for ongoing appointments in the Public Private Partnership Authority.

The meeting also approved 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 to be discussed in the Cabinet Committee.

Stressing on the need for psychological analysis to check the trends of the candidates for recruitment in the Police Department, the Finance Minister directed the Home Department to ensure merit while maintaining transparency during recruitment in sensitive institutions.

He asked to improve the performance of institutions for special incentive. He observed that giving incentives to someone and depriving the others in the same institution of the equal performance and competence was unjustified. It lowers the morale of those who do not get incentives, he added.