Kamran Tessori is a politician and businessman, currently serving as Sindh Governor since October 9, 2022.

President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi awarded Tamgha-e-Imtiaz to Governor Sindh Kamran Tessori for his public services towards poor and downtrodden. He got best exporter award on nine occasions and best businessman of year on three times. He was given golden son of country award once. He is also recipient of many awards besides title like ‘Awami Governor’.

‘Governorship in eyes of Kamran Khan Tessori’:

As visionary leader, governor would provide an outlook for future as well as influence both values and expectations of citizens. It is critical for governor to define future challenges and provide pathway for citizens to face them even when they require short-run sacrifices. For example, one of most pressing challenges today involves inflation, job loss and wages, education, law and order and many more.

One way to alleviate this particular challenge is to provide citizens with continuous learning opportunities for taking measures and enhancing skill to tackle such issues. It is critical for a governor not only to define the challenge, but to specify how state government will provide specific opportunities, which in this example are education and training opportunities, to meet challenge.

The key component, however, is for governor to provide an optimistic message that will increase value of education for all citizens, R result is that citizens will take initiative to upgrade their own skill levels and will develop higher expectation of importance of education. 

A governor as an effective manager and visionary leader will have long-run positive impacts on citizens of his or her state in terms of their economic well-being, faith in government and democracy and long-run values and expectations.

Analysts’ perception on quality of a governor or civil servant:

According to Natasha Lewis, senior Policy Analyst at Ministry for Women, New Zealand highlights quality of good government servant.

Patience, resilience and kindness "Everyone here is smart, so distinguish yourself by being kind." Too often, we equate kindness with being non-assertive or even being pushover. There are so many people brimming with brilliant ideas. But those with kindness to create inclusive, powerful ways to design, shape, deliver and evaluate those brilliant ideas are ones I keep wanting to connect with and learn from.

Syed Muntasir Mamun Director of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Bangladesh says, Shrewd judgment: I would say ability to see through someone. Public servant is in unique position-he or she is bound by machination of political master. He has to deliver to unknown faces. One has to see through veils, as there are many masks people wear. For public servant, this is very important that they understand which mask they are speaking to. If you understand that, it solves lot of mysteries and heartbreak. Next steps are imagination, hard work, teamwork and an open mind.

Aarathi Krishnan, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies opines in this regard: Future-proof skills. Public servants need to be considerably more data-and tech-literate to understand powers and opportunities afforded by emerging technology. They need ability to move beyond just ‘tick-the-box’ programmes and policies and embrace innovative approaches and partners.

Zakhele Mbhele, Member of Parliament, South Africa says, “I believe that what makes good public servant, particularly in terms of politicians and political office-bearers, is quality of operating from premise of ideas and principles, not individual interests and partisan agendas.”

Let’s see Tessori’s performance on the ground

Is Governor Sindh’s endeavours he has done so far for betterment of education, health, creating jobs, introducing schemes for needy people, ration, to cater opportunity to a common can lodge complaint for resolution of his issues, betterment of law and order, fixing city’s infrastructure and above all opening Governor House doors to all and sundry to meet him has any parallel. Question is big but answer is simple.

Yes. Kamran Tessori’s deeds taken for well-being of citizens as a whole so far are testament to his welfare schemes. A long list is here to label his accomplishments.

Mega IT programme launched:

Governor Sindh launched Pakistan’s biggest IT programme for youth, including Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse, Web 3.0. State-of-the-art     marquee established for conducting training and test of thousands of students in various courses of Information Technology. Uptill now 508,000  applications have been accepted.

Bell of Hope Initiative:

Governor Tessori inaugurated ‘bell of hope’ outside gate number one of Governor House. It is functional from 12 midnight to 8am for persons with any emergency. They can ring bell of hope for solution of their grievances.At many times, Governor Sindh was present at the site of  Bell of Hope in late night hours and after listening public complaints immediately order with concern officials to resolve the matter

Amid rising inflation, Taqatwar Ration Programme

Amid rising inflation, ration bags distribution kicked off at Governor House under Taqatwar Ration programme among needy people is still    continuing. Over 0.1 million ration bags had been distributed among needy persons so far.

Sehri-Iftar at Governor House:

Around 5,000 people from different walks of life visited sprawling lawns of historic Sindh Governor House since start of Ramadhan to break their fast daily. Governor bore expenses for iftar receptions. In this respect catering contractor has been engaged for purpose.

Eidul Adha contribution towards needy:

Kamran Tessori distributed 100 sacrificial goats among orphans. Aim of this initiative was to share joy of Eid with children and their families who were unable to afford animals for sacrificing on Eid-ul-Adha. Besides 100 camels were sacrificed in Governor House and meat was distributed among needy people. Governor also distributed clothes to employees of Governor House on the eve of Eidul Adha.

Why Tessori is Awami Governor?

It is ture that Kamran Tessori is regarded as ‘awami governor’. He visit ed public sites and market and food streets without any fear. He visited almost all market and food streets in city where he mingled with common man and listened their issues. People around him always became happy and termed him ‘awami governor’.

Kamran Tessori during his visits in last Ramadhan nights interacted with citizens. “I am ready to do everything to resolve problems of people.” Tessori says, “I am grateful to people for title of people’s Governor.” Citizens were in surprise while seeing Governor among them. Kamran Tessori says purpose of visiting such places was to meet people and listen to their problems. He said that administration should visit markets and implement official prices.

Tessori wanted trade and business in city and province to keep going. During on his one visit in a city area, he gifted plot to blind man Muhammad Ibrahim at JDC’s Awami Sehri. Tessori also invited people present there to break their fast at Governor’s House.

Meetings, MoUs signing with envoys:

Accords, MOUs inked with several countries for socio-economic development. Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori has so far met several envoys and discussed development projects in Sindh and particularly in Karachi. Still he is desirous to remain in touch with envoys for socio-economic development of province. Many accords have already been inked in this direction with several countries. These countries included USA, UAE, Japan, Saudi Arab, United Kingdom, Germany, China and African and European countries.

Besides several MOUs have been signed with many USAID, TIKA, JICA and many more organisations as well. This is all for province with provision of better essential amenities of life and its role in specially health and education sectors is considerable.

Kamran Tessori’s efforts for business community:

Governor Sindh played a vital role in resolving issues of businees community by providing conducive investment environment for business community and international investors was always among his top priority. With an intent to save people from economic crisis, Kamran Tessori took all possible measures for enhancement of cooperation in various fields between countries.

Tessori’s stance on ‘Palestine issue’:

Kamran Tessori has stressed international community should raise its voice against oppression of people of Palestine being meted out by Israeli forces. He said that aid for people of Palestine is being collected on regular intervals and being sent to them at this time of test. He said that people of Pakistan stand in solidarity with people of Palestine.

Kamran Tessori’s active role on ‘law & order’ situation:

Kamran Tessori in meetings with Home Minister, IGP and Ranger Sindh officials highlighted skills enhancement of police force and community policing. He said effective use of CCTV cameras should be ensured adding that increasing community policing is need of hour. Tessori said that police is playing significant role in establishing peace while citizens' concern about street crimes in Karachi is valid. Governor also visited several business centres to take stock of issues of market area and traders as well.

Published in The Daily National Courier, January, 15 2024

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