Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has appreciated Ministries and their in-charge Ministers for completing first three waves of the rightsizing exercise successfully.

He was chairing a meeting of the Committee on Rightsizing the Federal Government in Islamabad today.

The purpose in the first three waves was to right size the 43 ministries and nearly 400 attached departments of the federal government before the end of the current financial year.

Alluding to the fourth wave of the rightsizing, the Minister said five ministries including Communications, Railways, Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety, Revenue and Petroleum and their attached departments would be examined for rightsizing as per mandate of the Committee.

During the subsequent proceedings, Ministry of Communications gave a detailed presentation to the Cabinet body on the functions, organizational structure and possibilities of semi-privatization and PPP models for various projects and initiatives of the Ministry. The Committee was told that in the spirit of rightsizing, the Ministry of Communications had already abolished all dyeing posts. 

Lastly, Communications Minister Abdul Aleem Khan said the NHA could become a major revenue spinner for the government if its resources were diverted to construction of revenue-based motorways like the M-6 leading from Sukkur to Karachi port.