Staff Reporter
Peshawar
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan Tuesday said that the proposed Peshawar Model Town (PMT) project will prove to be a milestone towards Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision of providing quality housing facilities to the low earning segment of the society. He directed the quarters concerned for starting work simultaneously on land acquisition, consultancy, engineering design and other process of the project.
He was chairing a meeting regarding proposed Peshawar Model Town project here at Chief Minister’s House Peshawar. Senior Member Board of Revenue (SMBR) Syed Zafar Ali Shah, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Shahab Ali Shah, Director General Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) Zafar Ali Shah and high ups of Peshawar and Nowshera district administrations attended the meeting.
While briefing the meeting about salient features of the proposed model town, it was told that the project would consist of different 23 zones covering 1.8 lac acres of land adding that practical work on the project would be started by May next year. Furthermore, it was informed that the process of feasibility study and identification of suitable site for the project had been completed. Under the project, some 81 thousand residential plots of different size, education complex, medical and sports complexes and other allied facilities would be available in the Model Town. The forum was apprised that under the project separate portion would be reserved for media enclave and public offices as well.
