PESHAWAR: In a bit to ensure better municipal services in the newly-merged areas, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government, in the first phase, has provided 50 numbers of waste disposal vehicles to 25 Tehsil Municipal Administrations (TMAs) of the merged districts, whereas such vehicles and other machinery of municipal services would be provided to the newly established TMAs in the second phase.

Furthermore, substantial progress has been made on the projects for establishment of various vegetable/fruit markets and bus stands in the merged areas. This was told in a meeting held here the other day to review the performance of Local Government and Rural Development with Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan in the chair.

Besides provincial minister for Local Government, Akbar Ayub, Secretary Local Government, Mian Shakeel Ahmed, Principal Secretary to CM Shahaba Ali Shah, Secretary Planning and Development Humayun Khan, Director General Peshawar Development Authority, Syed Zafar Ali Shah and Deputy Commissioner Peshawar Muharram Ali Asghar, other concerned high-ups attended the meeting.—PR

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