NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has directed the officials of Workers Welfare Board to expedite the process equipment purchase for 50-bed hospital in Peshawar Kidney Centre. Presiding over a presentation by the officials of Workers Welfare Board at Chief Minister's Secretariat, Peshawar on Friday.
Durrani expressed his annoyance over slow pace of upgrading work in Trauma and Burn Center and directed for convening a meeting of concerned high ranking officials to discuss factors behind the delay in uplift work.
Chief Minister was briefed about the welfare projects being initiated by the board for workers. According to the briefing, Medicare centers were established in health sector with cost of Rs 71.444 million.
The officials informed the chief minister that with cost of Rs 17.384, nine industrial homes have been established throughout the province, while the board had increased the marriage and death grants up to Rs 50, 000 and Rs 200,000 respectively.
They said that new schools have been established in 13 districts of the province and Rs 67.03 million had been disbursed as scholarship among the children of industrial workers. They said that work on provision of family flats to workers in Gadon, Nowshera, Takhtbai, Hatar and Haripur was in progress, adding for construction of labourer complexes in Regi, Nowshera and Hatar, 4000 acres of land would be purchased out of the total amount of Rs 570 million allocated for the purpose.
Meanwhile Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani will inaugurate Akram Khan Durrani College in Bannu in December this year. The previous name of the college was Akram Khan Durrani Public School, which is now changed as Akram Khan Durrani College wherein classes for intermediate examination would launch from December 18, 2006.
Initially, children would be given admissions in class first to class sixth and later they would be promoted up to inter level. This decision was taken during the first ever meeting of board of governors of the college under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani at Chief Minister Secretariat.
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