Chitral Times Report
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has directed the high ups of Social Welfare Department to come up with feasible and solid proposals within 15 days positively in order to streamline and improve the overall management of Darul Amans across the province with the aim to make them fully functional, ensure availability of the required amenities therein, cent percent implementation of SOPs put in place for their operation and improve their day to day business.
He has said that it was the important responsibility of the department to ensure the provision of quality facilities, safe environment and to the helpless women and children living in Darul Amans, adding that any kind of laxity in this regard will not be tolerated.
He was chairing a meeting regarding Darul Amans here the other day. The meeting reviewed in detail the existing situation of Darul Aman across the province with special focus on the provision of basic facilities, implemented of SoPs and other day to day management issues. Besides MPA Dr. Sumaira Shams, Secretary Social Welfare, zulfiqar Ali Shah and Director Social Welfare Habib Afridi, the meeting was attended by other concerned quarters.
The meeting was informed that at the moment six Darul Amans were functional in varoius districts of the province incuding Abbottabad, Peshawar, Mardan, Swat, Hurripur and Mansehra where as three Darul Amans were under construction. The Chief Minister termed the provision of safe environment and basic facilities to the women and children living in those Darul Amans as the important responsibility of the government and directed the quarters concerned for necessary steps on immediate basis to improve the overall management of these Darul Amans and ensure the implementation of the prescribed SoPs in letter and spirit with the aim to make the Darul Aman an ideal place of shelter for the helpless women and children.
He further directed the authorities concerned to immediately post out all the male staff in Darul Amans and replace them with female staff and make sure that only female staff members are deputed in Darul Aman adding that fresh positions for female staff be created if so required. Mahmood Khan further directed that keeping in view the cultural norms of the province, entry of male folk in Darul Amans be banned and an effective mechanism of monitoring be put in place to maintain a safe environment therein.
