Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Housing Amjid Afridi has said that the government has formally approved construction of Zamir Gul Dam in Kohat with a cost of Rs760 million.
He announced this while speaking at a public meeting at Company Park here on Sunday. He said that he had inaugurated gas supply to 13 localities on the outskirts of Kohat city and promised that the facility would be provided to six more villages within 20 days.
He was accompanied by his brother, state minister for trade Senator Abbas Afridi, his father Shamim Afridi – who is likely to contest coming election for National Assembly seat – and elders from different areas of Kohat. Strict security arrangements were made for the public meeting.
The provincial minister also inaugurated office of the State Life Insurance in Chakarkot and announced that many employees of the state life working in Peshawar would be adjusted in the Kohat office. The housing minister claimed that he had spent Rs260 million on provision of electricity in his KP-37 constituency. He thanked the chief minister for establishing one degree college for boys and three girls’ colleges in Kohat during past about five years. Mr Afridi said that with his efforts the provincial government had also upgraded several schools in remote areas to provide high school education facility to the youth.
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