Pakistan Views

President Pervez Musharraf has stressed the need for bridging the gap between policy formulation and implementation as well as their sustainability and continuation.He was addressing the participants of 88th National Management Course (BPS-18) and 3rd Senior NMC (BPS-19 and above) at National Management College here on Saturday.The President said, “Government sector is faced with two major problems- big gap between policy formulation and implementation as well as lack of their sustainability and continuation.”He observed there is a culture of changing policy by doing away with the policies of the previous government, which hinders the development of the country.Musharraf said, “You represent various professions of public departments and you are indeed the backbone and driving force of the government.”He called upon the officers to pay heed to implementation of policies, besides ensuring their sustainability.Another grave problem is time delay in decision making which due to both vertical (delay within the department) and horizontal (time delay among the departments) create obstacles in policy implementation, he maintained.”We must apply our minds on smooth functioning and continuation of policies,” he added.He pointed out that there is no systematic grooming of officers and weaknesses in Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs). The officers must show moral courage while writing the ACRs, he asserted.The President said nepotism is another menace of whole of Pakistan and the departments, which badly affects the working of departments. He stressed the need for selecting right persons and putting them on right job.