K-P Sets December Deadline for Governance Overhaul

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur chaired a Deputy Commissioners conference in Peshawar on August 8, 2025, and directed all district deputy commissioners to meet specific public service delivery targets by December 2025 under the provincial Good Governance Roadmap. The conference reviewed implementation milestones and set a year-end deadline for a range of sectoral objectives.

The meeting was attended by cabinet members, the chief secretary, the additional chief secretary, divisional commissioners, administrative secretaries, and deputy commissioners from across the province. Officials reviewed operational plans across the sectors prioritized in the roadmap and discussed monitoring and reporting arrangements.

The roadmap assigns targets to seven priority sectors. In health, primary health centres are to be fully staffed and stocked with essential medicines and equipment by the December deadline. In education, directives include measures to improve teacher and student attendance and to address shortages of basic facilities in government schools. Agriculture objectives focus on ensuring availability of fertilizers, seeds and machinery at Farm Service Centres. Livestock targets call for staffing and equipping veterinary hospitals. Tourism aims include operationalising facilitation desks and restrooms at key sites. Social welfare actions cover improvements to Darul Amans, Panahgahs and Zamung Kor centres. Local government reforms list measures such as improved cleanliness in public spaces, streamlined waste disposal and appointment of sanitation staff in village councils.

The Good Governance Roadmap was launched in July 2025 as a two year implementation plan with an in-built system for rewards and accountability. The provincial government has linked the roadmap to a 99-point public agenda that will be monitored through periodic reviews. The conference reiterated that progress would be tracked through quarterly reviews and third party or independent monitoring where applicable.

Gandapur announced a rural sanitation programme to provide dedicated sanitation staff at the village council level. The first phase will cover over 2,000 rural union councils and has an estimated initial cost of about Rs5.5 billion for rollout in the initial phase. Officials were directed to prioritise recruitment and establish local monitoring for the sanitation workforce.

At the conference, the chief minister said deputy commissioners would be granted administrative authority needed to implement the roadmap while also noting that formal accountability measures would follow if assigned targets were not met. DCs were instructed to hold regular public forums, engage citizens through established feedback channels and use social media to gather community input on service delivery.

Provincial departments were told to update implementation schedules and reporting formats to align with the roadmap. The government has indicated that budgetary and administrative arrangements will support the December timetable and that performance-based evaluations will inform transfers, promotions and rewards. Quarterly progress reports are to be presented to the chief minister’s office through the established monitoring mechanism.