Faulty system hurdle to development: Khattak

NOWSHERA: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak on Saturday said streamlining the faulty and ineffective system was the only way to put the country on the path to development.

He was speaking at a gathering after inaugurating the newly constructed building of the Government College of Commerce and Management Sciences in Manki Sharif in his home town here.

The chief minister said that the politicians and successive governments had made the system ineffective by interfering and politicising the government departments. “Now is the time for politicians to accept their mistakes and work for revamping the faulty systems,” he added.

The chief minister said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had taken the lead and streamlined the decades old faulty system. He said that corruption, political interference and different education systems for poor and rich were the root cause of all evils.

He said that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) inherited a devastated province where corruption and mismanagement was rampant. “We upheld merit and depoliticised the government departments. Now there is no room for incompetent and underserving people in the government sector,” he added.

Pervez Khattak said that the government introduced a unified education system, which made the difference.  He enumerated the development work carried out by the PTI-led government in the province.

Earlier, the chief minister inaugurated the newly constructed building of the Government College of Commerce and Management Sciences.

The college had been constructed on 34 kanal of land with the cost of Rs83.396 million. The chief minister announced upgrading the college to a Post-Graduate College.

Provincial Minister for Excise and Taxation Mian Jamsheddudin Kakakhel, District Nazim Liaqat Khattak, naib nazim Ashfaq Khattak, Member National Assembly Imran Khattak, Member Provincial Assembly Mian Khaliqur Rehman and others were also present.