KP depts asked to enforce newly-approved anti-corruption measures.

PESHAWAR -- The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has directed the major departments and divisional commissioners to implement the anti-corruption measures approved a couple of days ago.

A letter issued by Chief Minister's Secretariat and addressed to the administrative secretaries and commissioners said that a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mahmood Khan and attended by ministers had approved anti-corruption measures a couples of days ago.

It said that as a central move towards institutionalising the measures against corruption, four main tools including transfer and posting policy; placement committees; negative lists; and central hotline with whistleblower mechanisms were identified and developed.

Posting and transfer, placement panels, negative list and central hotline main tools of new mechanism

Under the transfer and posting policy, board of revenue, communication and works, health and excise departments have to transfer all the staffers, who have worked on the same post for about two years and practice inter-divisional, urban-rural transfer and postings.

It said that those departments would have to ensure that transfers and posting were made once a year. These departments would have to frame their policies and submit them to Chief Minister's Secretariat within a fortnight.

The letter said that the departments would have to constitute a placement committee at departmental level in consultation with respective ministers. It said that placement committees would be responsible for all transfers and postings and grievances of all individuals.

These committees would act as independent units and they would include the minister concerned, secretary, additional secretary and two nominated individuals or officers of relevant cadres with credible repute.

Regarding the negative lists, it said that an exhaustive list of notorious individuals at department level who had poor professional ethics and were involved in documented offences of corruption would be unofficially maintained.

These lists would be made across all cadres and officials on these...