ISLAMABAD: As if the transfer of six commissioners in Lahore and Rawalpindi and seven in Gujranwala was not a shining proof of good governance in Punjab under the PTI government, Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has transferred 10 commissioners to his hometown Dera Ghazi Khan. last 40 months.
This equates to an average tenure of four months for each commissioner, as opposed to the policy requirement of three to four years. The transfer of ten commissioners in a span of 40 months is unheard of in the administrative history of Punjab, but Prime Minister Imran Khan's Wasim Akram plus in his home division has made it possible.
Following are the 10 Commissioners transferred so far in quick succession to DG Khan: Rana Gulzar (October 2018). Tahir Khurshid (April, 2019), Asad Ullah Faiz (July, 2019), Mudasir Riaz Malik (November, 2019), Naseem Sadiq (April, 2020), Sajid Zafar Dahal (October, 2020), Dr. Irshad Ahmed (August, 2021) ), Sara Aslam (November, 2021), Zeeshan Lashari (December, 2021), and Liaquat Ali Chatha (December, 2021).
Reportedly, all these officers were interviewed personally by the CM before being posted as commissioner in DG Khan.
Bureaucratic sources suggest that this division is considered the most important administrative unit of governance in Pakistan. The commissioner is the representative of the government at the divisional level, away from the provincial headquarters. He supervises and supervises all the provincial departments and writes the ACRs of all the deputy commissioners and counter signs the ACRs of all the assistant commissioners in the division and other provincial government departmental heads. He also oversees major federal departments.
Punjab has nine administrative divisions, namely Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Sargodha, Lahore, Sahiwal, Multan, Bahawalpur, Faisalabad and D G Khan.
DG Mines Division is very important from administrative and security point of view. It includes Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur, Layya and DG Khan districts. It is bordered by all the three provinces of Sindh, Balochistan and KP. It also has a section of tribal areas at Rajanpur and DG Khan, which is the direct responsibility of Commissioner DG Khan controlling the Baloch Military Police (BMP), the militia controlling the DG Khan Tribal Area. The clout of this force can be gauged from the fact that Chief Minister Buzdar's brother Umar Buzdar is a Lewis Havildar in the BMP.
According to an official, “The division has several important security installations, the region has significant energy infrastructure and the Indus Highway connecting the northern regions of the country with the port city of Karachi passes through DG Khan Division. Security wise. Since then also this division is on the frontline due to its proximity to the former tribal areas of Balochistan and KP. The local law and order situation is also very precarious as many criminal gangs are active in the riverine areas of the Indus river which flows through the entire division. "
Expressing regret, a senior civic official said, "Administrative instability is the last thing in such a sensitive administrative area."
There is a severe lack of development in the region, and the people are one of the poorest in Punjab. The source said that the culture of the area is Sardar dominated and highly feudal and in this culture the only hope for the poor people is professional, neutral and effective civil servants.
“However, the feudal chieftain-dominated PTI government has made the senior-most civil service position in the DG Khan division a rolling stone and a joke,” he said, adding that “for most bureaucrats, it is incomprehensible that The provincial government has been unable to find a suitable officer for the last three-and-a-half years for the most important administrative work in the chief minister's hometown.