The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is working over a proposal to construct one thousand spacious residential flats along with facilities like mosques, schools, post office, car parking, etc, both for the serving and retired government servants by demolishing the age-old dilapidated civil quarters on Kohat Road, Peshawar.
According to the scheme, the high rise flats, to be reconstructed, will provide approximately 1000 residential accommodation for families of both existing residents and retired government servants, two spacious mosques instead of the existing one, two high schools each for boys and girls, a primary school, a community centre, a medical dispensary, post office, telephone exchange, a big car park and a graveyard.
The mosques will also include residence for the Pesh Imams. The scheme has been prepared by well known consultant Ms Shaheen Khan, Allied Engineering selected among a list of consultants for the purpose. The condition of the age-old civil quarters at Kohat Road was deteriorating and, taking notice of it, the Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ameer Haider Hoti, while presiding over a meeting, ordered to prepare feasibility report for the construction of high rise apartments at the site of the said quarters.
The provincial government has been facing the problem of scarcity of accommodation for its employees since long and, of late, the situation has worsened to the extent that its large number of employees almost retire longing and waiting a government accommodation in the capital city.
The addition of such one thousand residential flats will be a good contribution to resolving this serious problem besides adding to the beauty and enrichment of this historic city. The site is on walking distance from the Civil Secretariat and provincial offices but has been totally ignored in the past and the area giving a look of the slums at the moment.