The NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has formed a steering committee to be headed by Additional Chief Secretary Mir Laiq Shah for implementation of construction of watercourses in the province.
The committee will be responsible for management and even appointments. In the current fiscal Rs one billion will be spent on the project and it will provide jobs to more than thousands people.
He revealed this in a meeting with Chief Co-ordinator of President of Pakistan on water channel lining, MNA Jehangir Tareen here at Frontier House Peshawar, on Monday.
The chief minister directed the authorities concerned to start work on the project immediately and advertise posts for this purpose. It is our desire that President of Pakistan inaugurates this project in D. I. Khan where we will brief him about small dams, Lift Canal, and Tank Zam, he added.
Jehangir Tareen informed that the project would cost Rs 66 billion in the coming four years while the provincial governments will monitor it.
Durrani said that due to poverty and joblessness the people of NWFP have no access to technical education and training adding that they wanted to introduce a system in the private sector, to be supported by well to do people for revenue generation.
The new system, the chief minister said would not only provide technical education and training facilities to the poor people but it will also help in poverty alleviation. He said that under the watercourse project, 2,000 watercourses would be constructed in the frontier province. Honest and dedicated people will be involved in the project, which will ensure judicious and transparent use of resources and the project will also provide jobs to the local people, he added.
The chief minister said that the MMA government is keen to eliminate poverty and increase literacy ratio in the Frontier province. To increase the literacy rate, the chief minister said that the provincial government has started a programme, which will cost Rs 50.00 million, and 2,000 graduates will be involved in the programme to educate the people. We will not repeat the mistakes of past and a proper monitoring mechanism will be worked out for this programme.
The chief minister said that the present government has planned to construct of 20 small dams and lift canal in the southern district of the province.
He said that completion of these dames would make the province self-sufficient in edible items. We have also briefed the Asian Development Bank team on the project and they have agreed to provide funds for the project. He said that the federal government should also support a province in the construction of small dams.
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