Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA) Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali today said that the perception of the people with regard to the Food and Civil supplies department has completely changed following its reorganization, reconditioning and continuous streamlining of all the subsidiary branches for effective management and public delivery system.This was stated by the Minister while handing over the promotion orders to 124 employees, on the eve of Diwali.The minister further said that the department has adopted two pronged approach for improving the work culture including already initiated innovative and consumer friendly schemes involving e- rationing, GPS installation in department trucks, opening of LPG outlets and effective public distribution system alongwith complete reorientation of the department by bringing complete transparency in its departmental promotion policies.On the occasion, the Minister announced the promotion orders of 124 employees who after 2 month long exercise were approved by DPC on 28th October. The Minister interacted with the promoted employees and also took reviewed the work and duties of these employees.
Interacting with the promoted employees, the Minister instructed them to follow work ethics and work with honesty, dedication and transparency for ensuring that the objectives are accomplished for the good of all stakeholders.He instructed the department to ensure that DPCs are made a biannual feature for better promotional facilities for the employees . He further instructed the department to complete all formalities for other employees so that their cases are also scrutinized in next DPC.With this DPC, total 137 employees have been promoted this financial year, including 35 employees promoted as Senior assistants and Store keepers, 87 TSOs, Head assistants, Supervisors, Area Inspectors and 2 others as Chief Inspectors.The Minister appreciated the hard work put in by the department for scrutinizing APRs, ACRs, seeking vigilance clearance and completing other formalities. The Minister also extended Diwali greetings to the employees of the department and general public.Among others present on the occasion were Director GS Chib, Joint Director Mansoor Aslam Choudhary, Assistant Directors and other officials.