PESHAWAR:KhyberPakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has directed chief secretary to devise regulatory framework for maintenance and repair of government buildings, roads, canals and other installations to ensure judicious utilisation of funds.

According to official documents, chief minister has directed establishment of a robust regulatory framework to mitigate mismanagement, enhance accountability, and prevent delays that hinder timely execution of necessary repair works. He has issued directives to Chief Secretary Shahab Ali Shah throughaletterissuedhereonSaturday.

This framework will comprise a district supervisory committee to streamline the execution process, ensuring transparencyand qualityassurancein maintenance and repair works.

The directives have been issued after noticing that maintenance and repair funds allocated for roads, buildings, irrigation canals, water supply schemes and electricity transformers` repair under Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) and Tribal Electric Supply Company(Tesco) are often utilised without a structured oversight mechanism, leading to inefficiencies, lack of prioritisation and substandard work.

For the regulation of maintenance and repair works, a supervisory committee will be established in each district. The relevant deputy commissioner will be chairperson of the district supervisor committee.

Other members of the committee will be additional deputy commissioner (F&P), district head of the relevant executing department and two members from civil society, who will be nominated by commissioner.

The representative of monitoring and evaluation wing of planning and development department will perform as secretary of the district committee.

As per Terms of Reference (ToR), the committee will be responsible to identify and maintain a district priority list of maintenance and repair works for each department, ensuring due diligence based on cost-effectiveness and population benefit analysis.

The district committee will also forward proposed schemes to the respective department for final approval by the departmental scrutiny committee (DSC).