Punjab Breaking News: Punjab to hire vehicles for officers

Chandigarh, December 5, 2014: The Punjab Government has taken a policy decision for providing hired vehicles to officers as per their entitlement to increase touring and inspection of works in the field.

According to an Official Spokesman of the Finance Department it has been estimated the Department of Transport that the cost of running a government vehicle was about Rs.74,000 per month whereas the cost for a private vehicle of a reasonable make is about Rs. 40,000 per month. In the light of austerity measures, the decision of the Finance Department will be a step forward to reduce avoidable expenditure of the government

He said that for transparency in the system of hiring, the vehicles will be taken on rent from the open market by way of tendering process for which head of department will be the competent authority. With this system in place, there will be no shortage of vehicles in government offices and the general public will also benefitted with increased quality of work and provision of better services to them due to enhanced monitoring.

He said that Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa has taken the decision with the approval of Hon'ble Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.

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