Staff Reporter
Peshawar
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan has directed the authorities of irrigation department to introduce E-Work Order and E-Billing System to ensure cent percent transparency in the contracts of developmental schemes being executed by the department.
He has further directed the authorities for concrete steps to remove illegal encroachments on irrigation channels on permanent basis as well as to protect the water of these channels from all sorts of contamination and pollution.
He was chairing a meeting to review the overall performance of the irrigation department held here on Tuesday. The meeting was given detailed briefing about the progress made so far on various developmental schemes, reforms initiatives introduced in the department and other various related matters. Besides Secretary Finance Atif Rehman, Secretary Irrigation Tahir Khan, Secretary to CM Shahab Ali Shah and Chief Engineer Irrigation Department Sahibzada Saeed, other high ups of the department also attended the meeting.
Briefing the participants of the meeting about the developmental portfolio of the department, it was informed that a total of 243 developmental projects had been reflected in the Annual Development Program (ADP) within an allocation of Rs. 15806 million.
It was further told that 70 developmental schemes had been included in the ADP of the Merged Areas with an allocation of Rs. 2031 million whereas work is in progress on 16 different developmental projects worth Rs. 4731 million under the Accelerated Implementation Program (AIP).
Regarding the projects of irrigation department included in the Public Sector Developmental Program (PSDP) it was informed that an amount of Rs. 4657 millions have been allocated for 12 number of projects under the PSDP.
