A special meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee of the Cabinet was held in Islamabad today with Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb in the chair.

The meeting reviewed the implementation status of various earlier policy decisions of the ECC concerning matters related to finance, interior, industries and production, inter-provincial coordination, housing and works, food security and research, power, national health services regulation and coordination.

The ECC was briefed on the overall implementation status of its past decisions followed by separate presentations by the relevant ministries on the current status of the issues pending with them and the steps taken and required to get a closure on them.

The forum noted with concern the delays in the implementation of its decisions and directed the concerned ministries to improve their coordination and work to ensure a timely compliance and completion of the tasks and responsibilities assigned to them for implementation of the ECC's decisions.