NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani has announced two billion rupees package for Swabi during his daylong visit of the district on Saturday, Education Minister Maulana Fazal Ali Haqqani said.
Maulana Haqqani, flanked by Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) provincial general secretary, Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, was talking to journalists at Peshawar Press Club (PPC) here on Monday.
The large-scale developmental schemes, announced by the chief minister, would help remove the sense of deprivation of the backward district of the province, he said. Maulana Haqqani and Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, belong to Swabi district. Haqqani is district Amir of JUI-F while Khan is provincial general secretary of Jamaat-i-Islami (JI).
The developmental schemes, including the construction of 50-kilometer Jehangira-Swabi Road and 25-kilometer Adina-Lahor Road would cost Rs 920 million and Rs280 million respectively.
The chief minister also announced various projects of the similar nature besides approving the establishment of colleges, schools and rural health centres (RHCs) in different towns and villages of the district.
The minister said that the chief minister had also laid the foundation stone of Fazal Ali Model School, in which the students would be taught Oxford institution curriculum at nominal tuition fee.
The school to be established on 200 kanal of land with the cost of Rs150 million, Haqqani said.
Furthermore, he said the chief minister had also pledged the removal of hurdles in the revival of the sick industrial units of Gadoon Amazai Industrial Estate.
The provincial government would give 25 percent subsidy in the electricity tariff for the industrial units of the zone. Terming the initiation of development schools as a comprehensive uplift package for the district, he said it would bring a revolution in the life of people of Swabi. They said that love and appreciation expressed by the people of Swabi show that the candidates of the religio-political alliance would sweep the next general elections in the district.
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