Punjab government approved appointment on vacant posts of Housing and Town Planning Company, Fisheries and Wildlife, Ombudsman office, and Infrastructure Development Authority on Thursday.

The approval was given in 19th meeting of Cabinet Committee for Finance headed by Punjab Finance Minister Hashim Jawan Bakhat, attended by provincial minister industry and trade Mian Aslam Iqbal, Advisor Chief Minister for Finance Dr Salman Shah, Chief Secretary Punjab Yousaf Naseem Khokar and secretaries of the department concern.

The meeting deferred the appointment in Zakat and Ushr departments, besides approving supplementary grants of Rs 10 million for the creation of board of directorates of Health Education and School department ordinance, Rs 6 million supplementary grants for equipment procurement for Lahore High Court, Rs 46 million for local government department for transformation to new system.

The meeting also approved supplementary grants for BHUs, THQs, DHQs and RHCs for Mianwali, Rawalpindi, and Fazalkach.

However, the meeting deferred the supplementary grants demand of the transport department for procurement of buses.

The transport department instructed to chalk out a plant with coordination of Urban Unit, planning and development department, finance department and city traffic policy for environment friendly routes and buses and present to the committee within a month.

The meeting also instructed the local government department to make a cell of human resource have understanding of electioneering in order to make estimates for the next local government election.