Staff Reporter Peshawar
A delegation of Asian Development Bank (ADB) called on Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan here on Wednesday and discussed with him and development partnership in different sectors in both settled and newly merged districts (MDs) of the province.
The delegation was headed by Director General Asian Development Bank for South Asia, Mr. Yevgeniy Zhukov.
Additional Chief Secretary Shahab Ali Shah, Principal Secretary to CM Amjad Ali Khan and administrative secretaries of concerned departments were also present on this occasion.
The dignatories discussed various matters regarding implementation of new projects and reviewed the progress so far made on the developmental projects being executed with the assistance of Asian Development Bank in the province.
On this occasion, both the sides agreed to complete as soon as possible all the formalities to initiate physical work on new projects specially the “Cities Improvement Project” to be executed in collaboration with ADB in the five divisional headquarters of the province.
Matters related to further enhance mutual cooperation and partnership between the provincial government and ADB in different sectors in the merged districts specially to boost local economy and employment generation opportunities also came under discussion.
