Mirpur Development Authority (MDA) has launched about ten development projects of public welfare, recreation and entertainment worth over Rs 80 million in various parts of Mirpur Azad Kashmir, Dr Amin Chaudhry Chairman MDA said. He was addressing a reception given to a delegation of under-training officers of various groups from Civil Services Academy Lahore here on Friday.
Leader of the delegation of the trainee officers belonging to DMG, police, income tax, information, excise and taxation and other fields also spoke on this occasion and apprised the audience of the objective of the study visit of the members of his delegation to Azad Kashmir.
Dr Amin Chaudhry said that the development projects including three under construction parks including the giant Bhutto Park in Mirpur city on Mirpur-Mangla Road located at the picturesque periphery of Mangla lake is ready for inauguration in the near future.
The construction work on the project is swiftly underway and will be completed within the stipulated timeframe. Besides, the first ever solar-energy-based street lights project has also been launched in Mirpur city which will be completed in different phases, he added. Since MDA was emerged over three decades ago particularly for the rehabilitation of the affectees of Mangla Dam, the institution is going to perform more similar responsibilities in connection with the rehabilitation programme for housing the affectees of the ongoing gigantic Mangla dam raising project, the MDA chief said.
Dr Amin said that special attention is being focused to acquire land for the resettlement of the affected families falling displaced due to the upraising of the country's second biggest dam in Mirpur district. They told that the New City and four model towns comprising all latest amenities of life are already being constructed adjacent to existing Mirpur city and in Islamgarh, Siakh, Chakswari and Dadayal by Wapda with the co-ordination of the AJK government for housing the affectees of the Mangla dam upraising project.
Earlier, the delegation also met Commissioner Mirpur division Ehsan Khalid Kiyani, Commissioner Mangla Dam Affairs Amir Afzal and other officials of the divisional and district administration and gathered information about the pace of development, administrative matters and matters of general interest related to Mirpur division.