RECORDER REPORT

PESHAWAR: In order to ensure transparency in the budgetary affairs of the district councils in the province, the Local Government & Rural Development Department (LG&RDD) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday directed its staff in the districts to film the budget proceeding and release the same to media.

In a circular to the assistant directors in the district, LG&RDD directed the officers to ensure proper media coverage for the district councils’ budget session proceedings so that transparency could also be ensured and people’s engagement in the budgetary affairs of their respective districts guaranteed.

LG&RDD asked the assistant directors that proper media coverage must be given to all budget sessions of the councils under their jurisdiction and complete proceedings must be filmed in a fair and transparent manner.

It directed the assistant directors to prepare three copies of budget proceeding videos of the district councils which should be sent to media and other concerned sections of the department while the same would also be posted on the official website of the department.