Staff Reporter Peshawar
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan on Saturday paid a day long visit to district Karak where he inaugurated a number of developmental projects and addressed a public gathering.
The chief minister inaugurated the second phase of gasification of different villages of Karak.
The said project will be completed at a cost of Rs. 5.5 billion. He also performed the ground breaking of gravity water supply scheme in order to ensure the provision of clean drinking water supply to Karak city.
The project will be completed at Rs. 730 million. Similarly, the chief minister laid the foundation stone of 9 km long bypass road, black topping of 5 km road and four different projects of water supply.
These projects will be completed at Rs. 2.8 billion, Rs.110 million and Rs.440 million respectively. Addressing a public gathering at Takht-e-Nasrati, the chief minister announced establishment of a Degree College in Takht-e-Nasrati and several other development projects for the area.
He said that the provincial government was planning development projects to bring backward districts of the province at par with developed ones adding that uplift projects worth Rs. 42 billion were underway in the district Karak in different sectors which on completion, would bring a positive change in the lives of people.
He further said that the provincial government was fully aware of problems of the southern districts and it was going all out to address all those problems on priority basis.
He added that a project worth Rs. 570 million had been approved for the revamping of district headquarter hospital Karak. Besides Karak Area Development Project had been initiated for the uplift of district. Rs.600 million had been earmarked in current budget for different projects in two constituencies of the district.
Mahmood Khan said that in the past, rulers did nothing for the development of the district adding that despite the production of natural gas from the area local people were deprived of the gas facility.
