Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue, Senator Muhammad Aurangzeb, chaired the meeting of the Committee on Rightsizing the Federal Government (Wave-IV) today. The meeting was attended by Federal Minister for Communications Mr. Abdul Aleem Khan, Members of the National Assembly, and Federal Secretaries of the relevant Ministries and Divisions. At the outset, the Minister for Finance and Revenue highlighted and appreciated what he called a “whole of the government” approach adopted by the Ministries and their in-charge Ministers for successfully completing first three waves of the rightsizing exercise aimed at examining 43 ministries and nearly 400 attached departments of the federal government for the purpose of rightsizing before the end of the financial year. The Minister also said the implementation of the decisions taken by the Committee and subsequently endorsed by the federal cabinet so far would be followed up for implementation by the sub-committee of the Rightsizing Committee, and the main Committee would intervene only in case of matters requiring escalation. The Chair announced that during the fourth wave, five ministries namely Ministry of Communications, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety, Revenue Division and Petroleum Division and their attached departments would be examined for rightsizing as per mandate of the Committee. During the subsequent proceedings, Ministry of Communications gave a detailed presentation to the Cabinet body on the functions, organizational structure and possibilities of semi-privatisation and PPP models for various projects and initiatives of the Ministry. The Committee was told that in the spirit of rightsizing, the Ministry of Communications had already abolished all dyeing posts. Federal Minister for Communications Mr. Abdul Aleem Khan also gave a perspective on the core functions of the Ministry and how its departments, particularly National Highway Authority (NHA), could be made profitable. He said the NHA could become a major revenue spinner for the government if its resources were diverted to construction of revenue-based motorways like the M-6 leading from Sukkur to Karachi port.
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