The federal government abolishes the Ministry of Aviation in the context of the Rights Plan

• The Ministry of Defense alerts the Ministries, Departments on the merger.
• The provinces demanded that the Ministry of Defense approach the Air Force.
• Finmin Aurangzeb Vows Rights 42 Ministries by June 30, 2025.

ISLAMABAD: According to his strategy for rights, with the aim of reducing expenses and stimulating institutional performance, the federal government abolished the Ministry of Aviation and forgiven it to the Ministry of Defense.

The Ministry of Defense issued a letter on the merger to alert the development to all ministries and departments after completing the implementation of legal regulatory orders (SO) given by the Council of Ministers on February 4.

The letter, which was sent to all head secretaries of the provincial, including top officials of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), said the Ministry of Defense should be approached for all airlines in the future.

Through this merger, the established government watched the savings of RS145 million a year.

The decision was made last month, after the federal government rejected a proposal to create a separate section of transport, merging the Air Force, Rail and Communications Departments.

Prime Minister Shehbaz’s management of Addresses received a new recommendation on January 10th to merge the Ministry of Aviation with the Ministry of Defense, which previously managed aviation issues until 2013, was more aligned with strategic goals as part of the rights program.

The federal government has formulated a program of rights with the abolition of various ministries and their attached departments to reduce spending and improve the effectiveness of the government.

In January, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb pledged to justify 42 ministries and their 400 issues by June 30 of the current year, adding that the Rights Committee would reduce 80 institutions in half.

Dividing the six -month performance of the Committee on Ministerial Advice on Rights, Aurangzeb said the government decided to bring five or six sections under rights at each stage.

“60% vacant regular positions – which have not come to payroll – amounted to 150,000 have been abolished or declared as dead positions, creating a real financial impact,” he said.

The minister recalled that efforts had previously been made to reduce the size of the federal government, adding that they were trying to reduce the costs of the federal government of 900 billion Rs.

He said, under Wave-1, six ministries, such as Kashmir’s case and Gilgit Baltistan, Safron. Information Technology and Telecommunications · Industries and Production; National Health Services and Coordination Regulations. The Capital Development Authority (CAD) was processed.

The government then began to consider five more institutions – the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Railway, the Ministry of Poverty and the Social Security, the Revenue Department and the Oil Department and their attached departments – for rights.