PESHAWAR: The provincial cabinet of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa accepted amendments to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Universities Act, 2012, allowing it to be provided earlier than the Provincial Assembly. Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ali Amin Khan Gandapur, presided over the meeting held on the Civil Secretariat Peshawar and attended by way of Ministers, Advisors, Special Assistants, the Chief Secretary, Additional Chief Secretaries, the Senior Member of the Board of Revenue, and applicable Administrative Secretaries, said an reputable handout here on Thursday. Besides, a few minor changes related to the executive capabilities of the universities, the wonderful amendments blanketed the designation of the Chief Minister as the Chancellor and the appointing authority for Vice Chancellors of these universities. The amendments additionally set the Vice Chancellors’ tenure as 4 years, issue to a mid-tenure assessment with the aid of a Performance Evaluation Committee to be constituted by using the Government. It has additionally been made obligatory that most effective ladies candidates can be appointed to the Vice Chancellor positions inside the public zone girls’s universities of the Province. The cupboard accepted the draft Agriculture Income Tax Act, 2024, with a view to be presented inside the Provincial Assembly for enactment and, if accredited, will come into pressure from January 2025. It is worth citing that in discussions with the Federal Board of Revenue and the International Monetary Fund, the need to levy Agriculture Income Tax on organizations (each small and others) involved in corporate agriculture turned into highlighted. Additionally, the advent of measures together with a “Super Tax” on high-earning individuals and companies, and consequences for mis-statement and non-submission of Agriculture Income Tax returns, become deemed necessary. To offer felony cowl for these measures, it became determined to draft a brand new Agriculture Income Tax Act, 2024, so that it will repeal KP Land and Agriculture Income Tax Ordinance 2000. The cabinet also authorised a framework settlement among Provincial Housing Authority Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Pakistan Housing Authority Foundation (PHAF) for production of low-fee housing scheme at Surizai, District Peshawar comprising 8000 gray shape homes and 5000 residences over a general place of 8500 kanal. The Provincial Cabinet authorised several key economic allocations and cost upgrades for numerous initiatives and packages. It approved an increase within the venture value from Rs. 243.531 million to Rs. 325.271 million for the “Construction & Repair & Maintenance Workshop for the WSSP Solid Waste Management Equipment and Machinery, Peshawar.” The cabinet additionally authorised the value enhancement for the “Reconstruction of Women & Children Liaqat Memorial Teaching Hospital, District Kohat.” The cupboard sanctioned the supply of finances below the Sehat Card Plus Program, with an preliminary allocation of Rs. 500 million for the remedy of diseases currently no longer protected beneath this system in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Additionally, a Grant in Aid of Rs. 10 million changed into accredited for the Rukhsana Mother & Child Trust Hospital (RMCTH) Peshawar. The cupboard additionally authorized normal annual investment as a grant in useful resource for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Blood Transfusion Authority and sanctioned an annual provide in useful resource of Rs. 10 million for the Fatimid Foundation for the fiscal year 2024/25. It also accredited Medical Financial Assistance of Rs. 03.00 million for one Mst. Kausar Samrin to cowl her fees for treatment of SLE LUPS Nephritis Kidneys. Furthermore, seed cash amounting to Rs. 200 million become approved for the Biodiversity & Wildlife Fund. The cupboard authorised extra fund growing loan amount from $300.00 million to $ 378.00 million beneath Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rural Accessibility Project (KP-RAP). It additionally accredited Enhancement of cost for Thandyani Road Abbottabad and Mankial Road Swat beneath KITE task. The cabinet authorized Fixation of Operational Cost with Akhuwat for the interest unfastened loan schemes of the province. Cabinet permitted formation of a committee for drafting the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Property Lease Rules, 2024. Finding of Reports of FP&MC concerning Monitoring of Ongoing Woodlots, Harvesting, Transportation and Marketing of Timber became supplied before the cabinet. The cabinet even as approving the suggestions directed the relevant authorities to enforce the findings in section wise manner so that the respective owners of the personal timber-plenty do not suffer in addition. While approving the digital land rights information Card-e-Jaidaad, the cabinet allowed revenue authorities to replace the measurements of lands thru ft and inches instead of conventional of Karams. The cupboard accredited name of participants for charter of “Conservation Heritage Board” under Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Antiquities act, 2016. The Conservation Heritage Board shall recommendation the Directorate on all major interventions in the heritage built of the Province in mild of the worldwide high-quality practices and shall also oversee that the execution of such intervention is undertaken in keeping with the steerage provided through the Board. The cupboard allowed the Establishment Department to settle thru arbitration the problems within the deliver of four bullet proofs cars. The issue turned into lingering on in differing courts for the reason that 2018.
