Staff Reporter Peshawar
A progress review meeting on developmental projects and public issues of southern districts was held here with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood (KP) Khan in the chair on Wednesday. The meeting reviewed in detail the implementation status of the decisions taken in the previous meeting chaired by the chief minister regarding implementation of developmental schemes and redressal of public issues in southern region of the province. Besides cabinet members Shah Muhammad Wazir, Hasham Inamullah, Zahoor Shakir, provincial assembly members from southern districts, administrative secretaries of concerned departments and other high ups attended the meeting.
Briefing about the implementation status of the decisions taken and directives issued in the previous meeting, it was informed that a total of 42 decisions were taken and directives were issued out of which 11 decisions have been implemented completely, implementation of 26 decisions was on target whereas implementation on some of decisions was delayed.
The chief minister has directed the quarter concerned to ensure posting of doctors and other allied staff in the newly established Doaba hospital of district Hangu and to make the hospital fully operational in two weeks time. He also directed to take immediate steps to make the newly established Hangu prisons fully functional within one month, and to prepare PC-1 for the construction of access road to tourist spot Samana and to identify suitable land for establishing entertainment park in Hangu district.
The meeting was informed that in the light of the chief minister’s directives the public health engineering department has identified/ proposed 79 schemes of clean drinking water supply in Dera Ismail Khan, 119 drinking water supply schemes in district Bannu, 24 schemes in district Tank, 124 schemes in district Lakki Marwat to resolve the issue of clean drinking water in the southern districts.
The chief minister on the occasion directed the authorities concerned to get the new water supply schemes approved from Provincial Working Development Party (PDWP) in its upcoming meeting and said that unavailability of clean drinking water was long standing public issue of southern districts and the provincial government was taking serious steps to resolve the issue on priority basis. The forum was further told that 2 Km new supply line had been laid to resolve the issue of low gas pressure in Kohat whereas survey has also been completed for supply of gas to Mohmmad Zai, Sher Kot, Nusrat Khel and Ali Zai areas.
