Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Finance Mohammad Hamayun Khan Thursday took serious notice of the complaints of the inclusion of non-affected people in the lists of flood affected victims in Malakand Agency. He directed the District Co-ordination Officer (DCO) Malakand Javed Marwat for initiating immediate inquiry into the matter and to submit a report within a period of one week.
Chairing a meeting of Executive District Officers in Malakand Agency at the Conference Room of the Finance Department on Thursday the finance minister gave a 7-day deadline to the Malakand Administration to hold proper investigation in the matter and to identify all the non-affected people whose names have been included in the lists and to fix the responsibility so that proper action should be taken against those involved in the issue.
Those who attended were included DCO Malakand Javed Khan Marwat, all the EDOs, members of the Malakand Development Committee Haji Abdul Kabir Khan, Chairman Muhammad Siddique and Jabarul Haq and officers of the finance department.
He said he knew that the whole of Malakand Agency was affected by the terrorism, but, the relief goods received to the agency were for the flood affected victims only. He also directed that inquiry should also be made in the NGOs relief funds and to know that the relief had been properly distributed among the real affected people in fair and transparent way or not. The meeting also reviewed the developmental schemes so far initiated in the PF-99 in education, health, sanitation, public health, communication, irrigation etc.
The minister said he could not tolerate any hindrance from the district departments and wanted to hand over the schemes to the people as early as the same were completed. Engineer Hamayun Khan also directed for expediting work on the ongoing projects and asked the EDOs to complete all the schemes. During the meeting the minister was briefed on the progress of work on a large number of approved development schemes, including Batkhela-Totakan road, Badwan bridge, Polytechnic Institute at Batkhela, special education complex at Thana, different link roads, irrigation channels, setting up of educational institutions, construction of additional class rooms, provision of basic facilities in hospitals, gravity water system, bypass roads, installation of hand pumps and water coolers in all the mosques etc.