LAHORE: Elections to chairpersons of four more standing committees of the Punjab Assembly were held here on Tuesday.

MPA Imran Akram was elected chairperson of the standing committee for S&GAD, MPA Akbar Hayat Haraj for public protection, MPA Rana Afzal Hussain for housing urban development and public health engineering and MPA Hasan Riaz was elected chairperson of the standing committee for irrigation department.

The assembly secretariat has issued a formal notification to the effect. So far elections to 12 standing committees have been held.

The assembly has a total of 49 committees – 40 of them are related to departments of the provincial government, three are public accounts committees and one is privileges committee. The chairpersons of all these panels are elected through a formal voting by the committee members.

Five other committees are library, government assurances, (assembly’s) finance, business advisory committee and house committee. Library committee is headed by the deputy speaker, while the speaker chairs the business advisory committee and nominates heads of three other panels. —

Published in Dawn, August 14th, 2024

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