Rs80m projects approved for Kohat

Source Dawn

The district development committee (DDC) here on Thursday approved 75 development schemes worth Rs80.75 million.


District coordination officer Shahidullah Khan, chairing the DDC meeting, asked the officials that work on all projects would be allowed to start only after identification of land. He strictly directed the officials to visit sites of the projects for filing exact estimates and refrain from making desk PC-1 reports.

The meeting was attended by executive officer finance Wahidur Rehman Khattak, executive officer communication and works Kifayatullah, technical officer, planning and development Muhammad Ijaz and tehsil municipal officer Noor Daraz Khattak.


Mr Rehman told the meeting that five projects, costing Rs10 million, would be carried out in the constituency of Senator Abbas Afridi and two development schemes worth Rs10 million in the constituency of MNA Pir Dilawar Shah.

He said that 20 projects, costing Rs20 million, had been approved for the PF- 38 constituency of MPA Qalbe Hassan. The funds for these projects had been provided from Tameer-i-Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Programme.

The DDC also approved 20 development projects in the PF-39 constituency of MPA Iqbal Din Fana.

The allocation of Rs2.85 million for three projects had been made from district annual development programme (DADP), 12 projects of Rs10 million from the Tameer-i-KP Programme and five projects of Rs10 million would be executed on the chief minister’s directives.

Mr. Rehman said that Rs2.85 million had been set aide from the DADP for six projects to be carried out in areas identified by MPA Musarat Shafi.


Meanwhile, speaking at a public meeting Senator Abbas Afridi promised that gas produced from local gas fields would be provided to all areas of the district without any discrimination.

He asked the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited to allocate funds for providing the facility in all the 32 union councils. He regretted that gas was provided to Punjab province from Kohat gas fields while local people were being ignored.