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1 (9th Session) NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SECRETARIAT ———— “QUESTIONS FOR ORAL ANSWERS AND THEIR REPLIES” to be asked at a sitting of the National Assembly to be held on Monday, the 29th April, 2019 @45. *Choudhary Faqir Ahmad: (Deferred during 6th Session) Will the Minister In-charge of the Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division be pleased to state: (a) whether it is a fact that thousands of people are being provided financial assistance under Benazir Income Support Programme but the begging and beggars are increasing day by day; and (b) the steps being taken by the Government in this regard? Minister In-charge of the Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division: (a) BISP developed the most scientific and reliable database as a result of the survey carried out in 2010­2011.This is an internationally tested formula called Poverty Score Card (PSC). It is further informed that no tools or data is available with BISP through which number of beggars in the country could be identified. BISP on the basis of scientific and objective targeting assessed welfare status of households across the country. A nationwide door to door survey was conducted which enabled BISP to identify eligible households through application of a Proxy Means ________________________________________________________ @ Transferred from Finance Division. 2 Test (PMT) that determined status of household on a scale welfare between 0­ 100. Using poverty Score Card method, around 7.7 million eligible families were identified. BISP targeting performance falls in top five social safety nets in the world. (b) BISP Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) and Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are designed to provide consumption smoothing and a cushion to mitigate negative effects of food and fuel inflation on ultra­poor. Nonetheless, in long term, a poverty reduction strategy is needed to put an end to dependency syndrome. Global evidence indicates that there is a need to design graduation program to break cycle of inter­generational and chronic poverty. During 2016­2017, different graduation models were considered by BISP to take clue from international best practices and make a customize graduation model for BISP beneficiaries. Renowned institutions like MIT, Harvard and LSE were engaged b, BISP to benefit from global success stories. BIS Graduation Model (B GM) is based on the premise that would enable cash grants recipients to eventually transform into income earning individuals. The purpose ofgraduation approach was not necessarily to provide comprehensive social protection but increasing income opportunity to the poor to come out of poverty in a sustainable way. BISP Graduation program consists of two models namely Business Incubation for Self­Employment (BISE) and Direct Cash for Start­up Business (DC) models and has been approved by the Government. The programme will be implemented in pilots and then learning from the lessons learned will be scaled up in the count in next 3 to 5 years. @51. *Mr. Muhammad Afzal: (Deferred during 6th Session) Will the Minister In-charge of the Establishment Division be pleased to state the reasons for frequent transfers and postings of the Inspector Generals Police in the Punjab and Islamabad Capital Territory? ________________________________________________________ @ Transferred from Interior Division. 3 Minister In-charge of the Establishment Division: Posting/ Transfer of Provincial Police Officer (PPO)/ ICP, Punjab. The caretaker Government posted Dr. Kaleem Imam (PSP/ BS­21) as Provincial Police Officer (PPO/IGP) Punjab on 13th June 2018 on the eve of general elections 2018. It was expected from the newly elected Government to make necessary changes at the command level of bureaucracy and police by replacing officers appointed by the Caretaker Government for elections purpose. Therefore, Mr. Muhammad Tahir (PSP/ BS­21) was posted as PPO/IGP Punjab in place of Dr. Kaleem Imam (PSP/ BS­21) vide notification dated 07­09­2018. However, Government of the Punjab vide its letter dated 07­10­2018 requested for provision of a panel of three (03) PSP/BS­22 officers for posting one of them as PPO/IGP, Punjab in place of Mr. Muhammad Tahir (PSP/BS­21) due to the reasons reproduced below (Annex-I):— “Government of the Punjab intents to replace Mr. Muhammad Tahir (PSP/BS­21) from the post of Provincial Police Officer, Punjab, in public interest. Government of the Punjab is committed to the implementation of fast track reforms in the police to bring relief to the common man by improving the organizational culture of Punjab Police. The present PPO/IGP, Punjab, Mr. Muhammad Tahir (PSP/ BS­21), unfortunately, has not shown keen interest in this regard up to the expectations of the Government. Consequently, the whole process of finalizing the reform agenda is bogged down. Moreover, the present PPO Punjab is a BS­21 officer. The Competent Authority is of the opinion that a senior officer of BS­22 is required with suitable qualification who has experience to steer the reform process”. Establishment Division vide letter dated 08­ 10­2018 accordingly forwarded a panel of three (03) PSP/ BS­22 officers including Mr. Amjad Javed Saleemi (PSP/ BS­22) to Government of the Punjab for their consideration/ recommendation as provided in the above referred agreement of 1993 (Annex-II). 4 In response thereto, Government of the Punjab accorded its consent for posting of Mr. Amjad Javed Saleemi (PSP/ BS­22) as PPO/ IGP Punjab vide their letter dated 08­10­2018 (Annex-III). Establishment Division accordingly posted Mr. Amjad Javed Saleemi (PSP/BS­22) and Mr. Muhammad Tahir (PSP/BS­21) as PPO/IGP Punjab and Commandant, National Police Academy (NPA) with the approval of Competent Authority vide notifications dated 09­10­2018 (Annex-IV). It is added that further Capt (Rtd) Arif Nawaz Khan (PSP/ BS­22) has been posted as new IGP/ PPO Punjab on the request to Government of the Punjab and Mr. Amjad Javed Saleemi (PSP/ BS­22) has been directed to report to Establishment Division vide notifications dated 15­04­2019 (Annex-V). Posting/ Transfer of Inspector General, ICT Police. It is submitted that the caretaker Government posted Lt. (Rtd.) Jan Muhammad, a BS­20 officer of Police Service of Pakistan (PSP), as Inspector General (IG) of Police Islamabad on 13th June 2018. It was expected from the newly elected Government to make necessary changes at the command level of bureaucracy and police by replacing officers appointed by the Caretaker Government for elections purpose. Transfer of IG Islamabad was under discussion for a few weeks because of his performance issue but it could not materialize due to multiple intervening factors i.e. Ashura and By­Elections. On 27­10­2018, Lt. (Rtd) Jan Muhammad (PSP/BS­20) was transferred from the post of Inspector General of Police Islamabad and directed to report to Establishment Division with the approval of Competent Authority i.e. Prime Minister. On 02­11­ 2018, Establishment Division posted new IG, ICT Police i.e. Mr. Muhammad Aamir Zulfiqar Khan (PSP/BS­21) (Annex-VI). (Annexures have been placed in the National Assembly Library) 5 32. *Mr. Mohsin Dawar: (Deferred during 8th Session) Will the Minister In-charge of the Cabinet Division be pleased to state the details of new vehicles purchased by various departments by the present Government? Minister In-charge of the Cabinet Division: In this regard, it submitted that no purchase has been made by Central Pool of Cars, Cabinet Division during the current financial year. However, seven (7) motorcycles for dispatch riders have been purchased during the current financial year 2018­19. The question No. 32 was accordingly forwarded to the Ministries / Divisions for provision of required details. In response, 45 Ministries / Divisions & Departments have provided the information about the purchase of vehicles during current financial year 2018­19. All the Ministries have furnished Nil report, except Petroleum Division which has purchased a 1300cc car during current financial year 2018­19 (Annex-I). However, following Organizations / Offices under the administrative control of Ministries have purchased the vehicles during current financial year 2018­19, detail is as under (Annex-II): ———————————————————————————————— S# Name of Office Quantity ———————————————————————————————— 1 National Highway Authority 9x vehicles 2 Motorway Policy 30x vehicles 3 National University of Technology 13x vehicles 4 NAB 54x vehicles 5 Higher Education 2x vehicles 6 Trade Development Authority 7x vehicles 7 National Textile University 2x vehicles ———————————————————————————————— (Annexures have been placed in the National Assembly Library) 6 44. *Syed Hussain Tariq: (Deferred during 8th Session) Will the Minister for Aviation Division be pleased to state: (a) whether there is any plan to re-assess the policy of open skies by the Government recently; if so, when such re- assessment was made alongwith details thereof; (b) whether a fact that the said plan was detrimental to PIA, as several domestic and international routes, previously operated by the PIA, were captured by other airlines; (c) if so, is there any proposal under consideration of the Government to conduct a forensic audit and identify negative details/impact thereof to PIA and fix it for corrective measures; (d) if so, the time by which it will be implemented? Minister for Aviation Division (Mr. Ghulam Sarwar Khan): (a) National Aviation Policy (NAP) 2019 has been approved by the Federal Cabinet on 26­3­2019. According to NAP, 2019 Pakistan

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