Local Government Secretary Punjab Imran Sikandar Baloch visited the offices of Punjab Rural Municipal Services Company on Monday. Where the Project Director briefed him on the performance and various other aspects of the project. The secretary directed the company authorities to immediately recruit social mobilizers and procurement specialists for the company. He desired that the list of villages to be selected for its pilot project should be presented in the next Board meeting. He said that the management information system should be procured as soon as possible for effective monitoring of the project and the achievement of the given objectives should be ensured within the stipulated time. Earlier, he was told in the briefing that Rural Municipal Services Company was a unique project of its kind which was working to provide basic facilities in 16 selected tehsils of different districts across the province. The project director said that more than 1million rural people would benefit from the Punjab Municipal Services project. It was further informed in the briefing that in the first phase, the recruitment for the company head office had been completed while the process of setting up offices at the tehsil level and selecting 200 villages for the pilot project was going on. Imran Sikandar Baloch said that the project would provide clean drinking water and the best sewerage system to the backward villages, which would help in controlling diseases in the target villages.
