PDWP allocates funds for multiple projects

The Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) held its meeting under the chairmanship of the Additional Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Muhammad Azam Khan, on Friday. The meeting was attended by its members and respective administrative secretaries. The forum considered 41 projects pertaining to different sectors including higher education, elementary and secondary education, sports, archeology, health, social welfare, relief and rehabilitation, finance, local development, multi sector development, urban development, roads and bridges, water, home, law & justice and agriculture sectors for the uplift of the province. The forum approved 32 Projects with an estimated cost of Rs 39,881,194 million. Eight projects were deferred and one project was withdrawn due to inadequate designs and strategies which were returned to the respective departments for rectification and improvements. In higher education sector, the approved projects were ‘establishment of Pak-Austria Fachhochschule Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology (PAF-IAST), Mang, District Haripur. Up gradation of existing university campuses to a full fledge university in Chitral was also on the list. Approved projects of elementary and secondary education sector were ‘establishment of model school at Haripur, development pf Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education transformation model projects in higher secondary schools of KP and instituting Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Girls Community Schools project (Phase-II). In the archeology sector, the only approved project was ‘repairment and rehabilitation of Mahabat Khan Mosque Peshawar’. In the social welfare sector¸ the only approved project was “up gradation and construction of one special education institute up to secondary level in each division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”. Approved projects of relief and rehabilitation sector were ‘rehabilitation of flood affected roads and bridges in district Chitral (C&W Department), reconstruction and rehabilitation of disaster affected infrastructure in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (irrigation department)’. In the finance sector, the only approved project was ‘capacity building & strengthening of the finance department ‘. In the local development sector, the only approved project was ‘special initiative programme for PK-30 in district Mardan’. In the multi sectoral development sector, the only approved project was ‘establishment of private-public partnership support unit in Planning and Development (P&D) department’. In the urban development sector, the only approved project was ‘fitting LED lights on various urban roads in Peshawar’. In the buildings sector, the approved projects were ‘design and construction of govt. officers residences at Race Course Garden, Peshawar, F/S, design for rehabilitation and emergent nature works in governor’s house Peshawar and governor’s house Natiagali, reconstruction of damaged DC’s main office/tehsil building Mansehra and gardening at chief minister’s house’. In roads sector, the approved projects were ‘provision for lapsed loan to be refunded to world bank against KP-ERRP in Pakistan’s portfolio, construction, improvement and widening of Paniala Paharpur road and construction of one number bridge on Paniala bypass road District D.I.Khan, F/S, Design and BT of internal roads of Pirpiai, Azakhel Bala, Payan, Dagai, Banda Nabi, Badrashi, Nowshera. More, there was to be the repairment of internal road in UCs Dagai-Banda Nabi, Pirpiai,Badrashi, Azakhel Bala and Payan, district Nowshera (Phase-II)(2016-17)’. In Department of Water Supply and Sewerage (DWSS) sector, the approved projects were ‘drinking water supply from Indus River to Village Rehman Abad Shakar Dara along with adjacent villages of Kohat’. More, there were concept paper for gravity based drinking water supply scheme Mingora Swat, concept paper for gravity flow drinking water supply scheme district Mansehra, sanitation /drainage scheme for UC Gujar Garhi PK-26 District Mardan, solarization of 200 schemes both existing and new water supply schemes, gravity schemes and high head schemes without solar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, construction of water supply and sanitation scheme in Galiyat and Lora Circle district Abbottabad’. In the water sector approved project, there were ‘construction for flood protection near village Khanay Bakka Khel and adjoining agricultural lands from flood flows in Tochi river District Bannu, diversion of water from Tarkha Algada to Kashu Algada, District Karak’. In the home sector, the only approved project was ‘re-construction of the damaged prisons due to October 26^th 2015 earthquake in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’. In law and justice sector, the approved projects were ‘construction of judicial complex, Mardan, F/S and master planning for construction of model anti-terrorism courts, reconstruction and renovation of judicial complex Nowshera and acquisition of land for construction of judicial complexes on need basis’.