KP CM wants uplift works initiated in tribal districts on war-footing

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan presided over a meeting to review the reconstruction and rehabilitation of farm to market roads initiated in the province in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank. The meeting focused on the road communication network in the newly-merged districts of the erstwhile Fata.The participants made a number of decisions for the smooth reconstruction and rehabilitation of roads communication network in the province. The meeting took place at the Chief Minister’s Secretariat. Minister for Communication and Works Akbar Ayub, Additional Chief Secretary Shehzad Bangash, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Mohammad Israr, Commissioner Peshawar Shahab Ali Shah, Secretary Finance Shakeel Qadir, Secretary C&W and Country Director Asian Development Bank Xiaohong Yang attended the meeting.The meeting focused on the 700 long kilometre four dozen rural roads initiated in the province in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank. A number of decisions were made for a comprehensive road communication network, integrating the whole of the province including the Districts of erstwhile Fata. The chief minister asked the participants to design an integrated development project for Fata covering the economic revival and growth comprising on areas such as water taping, farming, irrigation and agriculture productivity in the newly merged districts.“We want to carry out the developmental exercise in the newly merged districts on war footings under the definite aim to generate trade and commercial activities giving incentive to both the foreign investors for industrialization and exploitation of the natural advantages of these areas thus generating economic and employment opportunity for the benefit of the erstwhile Fata,” he added.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) representatives assured all-out support for the projects in the rural areas affected by different natural calamities in the province. There are 25 bridges on the 700 long km roads affected by earthquake and flood previously. The ADB already pledged allocation and financial assistance for the rehabilitation. A certain amount of roads reconstruction and rehabilitation in the erstwhile Fata would also be supported by the ADB, its representatives assured the meeting.

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