MUZAFFARABAD: (Parliament Times) The Director General Information Raja Azhar Iqbal has urged the officers of his department to discharge their professional duties more diligently.
Addressing a meeting of officers of district, divisional and headquarter level here on Tuesday he underlined the need of highlighting Kashmir liberation struggle, developmental projects of AJK government. “This is age of media and information technology” he said. Iqbal said Information department was being strengthened to cater the present age challenges. He stressed that contacts with electronic, print, social media and digital media may be made more effective.
The meeting reviewed the overall performance of officers and employees of Information department and they were entrusted with new assignments. The meeting termed the overall performance of the department as satisfied. The meeting identified the problems and formulated a strategy to resolve them. The meeting also reviewed matters relating to advertisements and evolved a mechanism for it. The meeting directed the officers for smooth administrative affairs, and transparent use of department’s budget and to address the audit objections immediately. All the district officers were urged in the meeting to prepare digital archive at district level.
Addressing the meeting the DG Information emphasized them to work like a team. He said such review meeting would be convened after every three months in future. He said officers would be asked about their performance after every 90 days. We have to introduce new technology in our working, he added.
