The ninth meeting of the Provincial Development Working Party was held under the chairmanship of Additional Chief Secretary Planning and Development Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ikramullah Khan.
The meeting was attended by PDWP members and officers of the relevant departments. The forum approved 60 important projects related to roads, agriculture, social welfare, livestock, industries, health, forests and irrigation for the development of the province.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has approved a water supply and drainage project worth Rs 500 million for the flood-hit Buner district. Under the project, clean water supply projects will be provided in Union Council Gulbandi and Pandera and work will be done on the improvement of streets and drains in Tehsil Gagra and Chagharzai.
On the special instructions of Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Muhammad Sohail Afridi, several road infrastructure projects were approved in the Provincial Development Working Party meeting to make the daily journey of citizens easier and safer and to enable access to remote areas through the improvement of roads across the province. 27 feasibility studies will be conducted under the projects.
A Rs 1.8 billion project has been approved for the improvement of water supply system and rehabilitation of structures on the Main Chashma Right Bank Canal in Dera Ismail Khan, which will benefit three lakh people.
