{"id":79278,"date":"2021-09-01T13:02:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T08:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=79278"},"modified":"2021-09-01T13:02:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T08:02:19","slug":"south-punjab-secretariat-powers-amendments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/south-punjab-secretariat-powers-amendments.html","title":{"rendered":"South Punjab Secretariat got formal powers after amendments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Sardar Usman Buzdar on Tuesday (August 31) said that the Punjab Government Rules of Business 2011 had been modified, allowing the bureaucracy in the south Punjab to handle people&#8217;s concerns locally.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-creates-new-departments-south-punjab.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Govt creates 15 new departments under South Punjab Secretariat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The said decision was taken in the 47th meeting of the provincial cabinet. Following the decision, Bahawalpur will be designated as the South Punjab Secretariat with 11 districts. The districts in South Punjab include Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Khanewal, Layyah, Lodhran, Multan, Muzaffargarh, Rahim Yar Khan, Rajanpur and Vehari. &nbsp; After the amendments, the Additional Chief&nbsp; Secretary (ACS) will be allowed to transfer BS-17 grade officers. Additionally, 17 departments have been transferred to the South Punjab province.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/buzdar-approves-construction-of-south-punjab-secretariat-gors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buzdar approves construction of South Punjab Secretariat, GORs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister said that the government has allocated a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/budget-2021-22-south-punjab-allocations.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"78112\" target=\"_blank\">PKR 190 billion budget<\/a> (33% of the total) to South Punjab. Similarly, the newly appointed and empowered ACS will be authorised to write annual confidential reports of secretaries and manage the affairs of the south side of the province.\u00a0 The cabinet also approves the establishment of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/commission-formed-to-regularise-illegal-housing-schemes.html\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"75537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Punjab Commission for Illegal Housing Societies <\/a>headed by retired Justice Azmat Saeed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Sardar Usman Buzdar on Tuesday (August 31) said that the Punjab Government Rules of Business 2011 had been modified, allowing the bureaucracy in the south Punjab to handle people&#8217;s concerns locally.\u00a0\u00a0 Read: Govt creates 15 new departments under South Punjab Secretariat The said decision was taken in the 47th meeting of the provincial cabinet. Following the decision, Bahawalpur will be designated as the South Punjab Secretariat with 11 districts. The districts in South Punjab include Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Khanewal, Layyah, Lodhran, Multan, Muzaffargarh, Rahim Yar Khan, Rajanpur and Vehari. &nbsp; After the amendments, the Additional Chief&nbsp; Secretary (ACS) will be allowed to transfer BS-17 grade officers. Additionally, 17 departments have been transferred to the South Punjab province.&nbsp; Read: Buzdar approves construction of South Punjab Secretariat, GORs The minister said that the government has allocated a PKR 190 billion budget (33% of the total) to South Punjab. Similarly, the newly appointed and empowered ACS will be authorised to write annual confidential reports of secretaries and manage the affairs of the south side of the province.\u00a0 The cabinet also approves the establishment of the Punjab Commission for Illegal Housing Societies headed by retired Justice Azmat&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":61428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15017],"tags":[1268,47891,38320,47890],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-notices-announcements","8":"tag-illegal-housing-schemes","9":"tag-punjab-commission-for-illegal-housing-societies","10":"tag-south-punjab-secretariat","11":"tag-south-punjab-secretariat-got-formal-powers-after-amendments","12":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Punjab Secretariat got formal powers from cabinet - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Tuesday aid that the Punjab Government Rules of Business 2011 had been modified, allowing the bureaucracy in th\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/south-punjab-secretariat-powers-amendments.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"South Punjab Secretariat got formal powers from cabinet - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar on Tuesday aid that the Punjab Government Rules of Business 2011 had been modified, allowing the bureaucracy in th\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/south-punjab-secretariat-powers-amendments.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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