PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has said that the present provincial government will reduce the trust deficit of the international donors' agencies by ensuring better monitory discipline and transparency.
Similarly the government will resolve the confidence of the tax payers by bringing reforms in the tax system and eliminating corruption adding that to this effect working groups have been formed in all government departments to implement the reform agenda of the present government.
He expressed these views while talking to a three-member delegation of Department For International Development (DFID) UK who called on him at his office on Wednesday.
The delegation discussed with him various matters related to reform agenda of the provincial government specially in the fields of social service delivery and the support of DFID in this regard. The delegation was led by George Turkington.
Speaking to the foreign guests, the chief minister said that basic reforms in education and health sectors were the top priorities of his government and practical work on the same has been initiated already.
No reform or change is possible without changing and reforming the education system and therefore, the provincial government will focus on education section and will introduce uniform system of education both the private and public educational institutions so that both the poor and the rich have equal opportunities of progress, the CM maintained.
He said that his government would ensure in all respect that the funds of the international donors in the province were spent for the right purpose and there will be no corruption at all, and an independent accountability commission is being constituted to ensure transparency in the use of government exchequer and the donors funds as well.
Khattak appreciated the effort and role of DFID for the improvement of health and education sectors in the province, and said that the provincial government highly valued the role of DFID and expressed the hope that DFID would continue its support and cooperation in the future as well.
He stressed the authorities of DFID to extend their full cooperation to the provincial government to implement its reform agenda in social sector.
Speaking on the occasion, the head of the delegation said that DFID worked in collaboration with the Federal and Provincial governments of Pakistan for the development of the country to provide basic facilities of life to its people.
He appreciated the commitment of the provincial government of bringing reforms in education and health sector.