ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has underlined the need for inculcating the spirit of fast decision-making in bureaucracy to improve service delivery and achieve the desired goals well in time.

He said the slow decisionmaking process by the bureaucracy resulted in poor governance as well as hampering the progress in the country.

According to a statement, the President made these remarks while chairing a meeting of the Board of Governors of the National School of Public Policy (NSPP), at Presidency on Thursday.The meeting was attended by the Special Secretary Finance Division Awais Manzur Sumra, Special Secretary Establishment Division Ms Asmat Tahira, Rector NSPP Dr Ijaz Munir and Secretary of Executive Committee of BoG of NSPP Nadeem Mahbub.

Speaking on the occasion, the president underlined the need for imparting modern knowledge and techniques to civil servants to ensure good governance and efficient ser-vice delivery.

He asked the Rector of NSPP to inculcate the spirit of fast decision-making among the civilservants getting training at NSPP, besides adopting best international training practices to improve the decisionmaking process as well as enhance the efficiency of the civil servants.

The Board of Governors approved the proposal to allow NSPP to hire young professionals as interns.

The president advised that suitable and efficient interns may be hired in order to enhance the capacity of youngprofessionals.

The meeting also approved the upgradation of Computer Operators from BPS-11 to BPS16 with the change of nomenclatures as IT Officers in all National Institutes of Management in the country.

The board also accorded approval to the proposal for adopting special dispensation for the employees in BPS-1 to BPS-16 as per the Finance Division`s Office Memorandum of Feb 14.