PESHAWAR: The Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) held its meeting under theChairmanship of Dr. Shahzad Khan Bangash, the Additional Chief Secretary KhyberPakhtunkhwa here Thursday.
The meeting wasattended by its members and respective administrative Secretaries.
The forumconsidered 29 projects pertaining to different sectors including LocalGovernment, Health, Sports (Youth affair), Elementary & SecondaryEducation, Forestry, Food, Home, Law & Justice, Water, Road, UrbanDevelopment, Building & DWSS sectors for the uplift of the province. Theforum approved 23 Projects with an estimated cost of Rs 7177.075 million, while6 project were deferred due to inadequate design.
The projects of healthsector approved in the meeting were included Court Decretal amount to be paidto the land owners in respect of 8 Kanal land purchased for Cat-D HospitalBarikot and Upgradation of RHC Nizampur to Category-D Hospital DistrictNowshera.
The projects of Sports(youth affair) Sector approved by the PDWP were Youth Development Package”& “Support to the living human treasure of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”. Approvedproject of Elementary & Secondary Education sector was “GHSS Bin Payan, DirUpper PK-91.
In forestry sector, themeeting approved project of Remote-Sensing Solution for Forest Change Detectionin Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while Automation of Food Department project of foodsector and construction of District Jail Swabi (Phase-II in home sector wasalso approved.
Variousprojects in different sectors worth billions of rupees were also approved in themeeting.