KP seeks $3.4mn from World Bank to repair flood-hit water channels

Peshawar: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government requested World Bank to provide $3.4 million to repair flood-hit agricultural irrigation water channels in the province.

According to the sources, World Bank is already supporting a project for rehabilitation of water channels and other water-related initiatives in KP through the provincial Agriculture department. The provincial government has requested for the emergency disbursement of funds under the same project to repair agricultural water channels damaged by the recent floods.

According to the sources, the director of the agriculture Water Management Unit has designed a PC-1, requesting $34 million for this purpose. The World Bank has been urged to transfer the fund as soon as possible so that the province start repair and reconstruction of irrigation channels damaged by floods.