LAHORE: Declaring the appointment of political people on the boards of directors of waste management and parking companies in Punjab illegal, the provincial local government has asked the deputy commissioners to appoint new members relevant to the job.

There are seven solid waste management and two parking companies in Punjab, all were established under the PML-N government of Shahbaz Sharif. Political appointments to their boards of directors were also made by the previous government.

The local government department had nevertheless cancelled all the political appointments to them last week.

In a direction sent to all the deputy commissioners concerned the department has asked them to appoint new members purely on merit. While nominating members of the boards of directors of the public sector companies, emphasis may be laid on skill, competence, experience, and approach of the members so that the boards as group include core competence and diversity considered relevant to the context of the public sector company’s operations as per spirit of the Public Sector Companies (Corporate Governance) Rules, 2013.

Further, the list of the members of the boards of directors with their curriculum vitae may kindly be finalised on a priority basis for consideration of the competent authority, and forwarded to the local government department by July 5 (today), the direction says.

Published in Dawn, July 5th, 2018