Planning
Vision and Mission Statements
VISION
“Turn
Lahore into Singapore”
MISSION
“Make
Lahore Clean, Bright & Green”
Goals and Objectives
Strategic goals of PHA include “Beautification” of Lahore
and this is applied to entire organization and set overall goals of PHA. As
mission and vision statement indicates that PHA aspires to make Lahore
beautiful so all the goals are directly in relation to that. PHA does planning for
four branches i.e. “Floriculture, Fructification, Vegitification and
Landscaping”. Goals are directly given to PHA by Chief Minister “Shahbaz
Sharif” and those goals become subgoals of entire organization.
Goal Setting
There
is a concept “Traditional Goal Setting” employed by PHA when formulating its
goals. Usually goals are directly set by Chief Minister himself with the help of Top level
Technicians. NO lower level technicians are involved in goal setting but some
top level technicians are involved while setting goals. Apart from them,
everyone else is just dictated the goals as par his position, which comes from
above.
Budget Allocation
Annual budget allocated to PHA is around 12 crore and it is
allocated to cover salaries and other expenses such as petrol. This budget of
12 crore is specifically for salaries and expenses, when a projecr is assigned
to PHA by CM, it receives additional budget for completing the project. PHA works according to modern and unusual
concepts like the Government-Private partnership for public services. As PHA
has been able to achieve such high revenue generation through its activities
such as “Designing Parks for Shaadi Purposes” and “Bill Boards for Advertising
of Companies”, it covers most of organizational and developmental expenses are
met by the funds generated.
Planning for Zones
PHA is divided into 5 zones of Lahore and Planning is done
for these zones at the very top level e.g. by directors. Projects are not
always given by ministry; sometimes Directorate of Planning & Development
can suggest or recommend certain project. Each zone when given a project,
Prepare Bill of Quantities of completion of project and then it passes it to
Director General for Approval. If DG
feels that the bill of quantities is appropriate, He then passes it to CM to
consider. If CM feels that the project’s cost are adequate. He then gives the
go ahead sign to PHA and allocates the budget project. Both DG and CM can
revise bill of quantities, if they feel they are not appropriate and they
assign Directorate of Planning & Development to Re-calculate the costs for
approved projects.
Planning for Personnel
PHA doesn’t have any proper Human Resource department.
Director General himself is the only competent authority for hiring the
personal on contractual and permanent basis. As by law a permanent employee of
Government of Pakistan cannot be fired, permanent employees don’t get fired at
PHA. But DG has the authority to fire contractual employees.
Plans according to type
Usually Plans employed at PHA are operational plans which
are concerned with only a certain zone, and these plans are mostly short-term plans.
Usually specific plans are employed which are for a specific project and also
these plans are for single use. Very few directional and general plans are
employed at PHA.