LAHORE: Punjab Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Shamail Ahmad Khawaja has directed to install tracker system preferably in the government vehicles of 2006 model and onwards.
He directed this while presiding over a meeting held to review the technical aspects of implementation of the CM’s directive regarding installation of trackers in government vehicles at Civil Secretariat on Tuesday. The meeting decided to implement the decision regarding installation of trackers as a phased project.
In the first phase, 2,575 government vehicles being used in various government departments, including the administrative departments and attached field offices, would be equipped with the latest kind of trackers. The Services and General Administration Department would sponsor the project while Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) would be the execution authority for this project.
The PC-I of the project would also be prepared by the PITB and funds would be allocated by Planning and Development Department for this purpose. It was decided in the meeting that the autonomous bodies would have to install trackers in vehicles in their use on their own expenses.
The companies assigned to install trackers would not be allowed to place the relevant data in their main server but PITB would safeguard the location based data for control access in its own central data centre at Arfa Karim IT Tower, Lahore.
Punjab Procurement Regularity Authority Managing Director Ali Bahadur Qazi, PITB Director General E-Governance Sajid Latif, PITB Senior Programme Manager Qasim Bhatti, S&GAD Additional Secretary Transport Wing Ashiq Hussain Olakh and MTO Ijaz Karim participated in the meeting besides other relevant senior officers.
