PM AJK inaugurates special portal to improve governance in Azad Kashmir

Prime Minister Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan on Thursday inaugurated a special web portal to improve governance in Azad Kashmir. Pertinently, the portal will provide the people an easy and direct access to the government besides lending them an opportunity to lodge complaints online and get their grievances addressed in due course of time. Speaking on this occasion, Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan said emphasized on developing a mechanism for timely redressal of grievances of overseas Kashmiris and locals. “In this era of information technology where the world has turned into a global village, but we are still running with an outdated system that needs to be innovated”, the PM said. He said that IT parks would be established at the district level to promote technological education in Azad Kashmir. The PM said that the people sitting in the Prime Minister’s Grievance Cell should be well trained so that they can be able to tackle the issues in a proficient manner and guide masses properly. In this occasion, Director General for IT, Dr. Muhammad Rafiq, while briefing the Prime Minister, said that through the Prime Minister’s Portal, the complaints of users can be directly conveyed to the Prime Minister’s Office. He said that user-friendly portal would enable the public to directly access the Prime Minister. “Complaints can also be made to the concerned departments through the complaint portals”, he said, adding that people from remote areas can register their grievances at home.