Staff Reporter Peshawar
The Irrigation Department Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has prepared a comprehensive reforms package to streamline its overall business on modern lines with special focus on water resource management, revenue generation, protection of water resources and their efficient utilization.
Key areas of the reforms include legal framework, operational management, human resource development, institutional development and cross-cutting reforms etc.
Under the legal framework, various reforms initiatives have been proposed including operationalization of water act, enforcement of river protection act, administration of the canal and drainage act, streamlining the issuance of NOC for undertaking the projects and improvement of land leasing process.
This was told in a high level meeting on the reforms of irrigation department held here with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan in the chair.
The meeting was given a detailed briefing about the key reforms being introduced in the different sectors of the department alongwith action plan to implement these reforms initiatives.
The forum was told that in the past, irrigation department has exclusively focused on infrastructure development and neglected the management of water resources adding that now the department has special focus on the protection of water resources and their efficient utilization adding that an integrated water resource management strategy has been devised for the purpose.
“Water Resource Management Authority and Water Resource Commission have also been notified for the implementation of aforesaid strategy”, it was informed.
