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Azad Kashmir CDC Okays Rs 88.763Bln Uplift
Projects
By Fatima
Raza 'Pakistan
Times' Kashmir Bureau Chief
MUZAFFARABAD (AJK): With
the Azad Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan in chair, the
Cabinet Development Committee in its full-day deliberations accorded
approval to fresh development projects estimated to cost Rs. 88.763 billions
in health, physical planning and housing, social welfare, forestry, wildlife
and agriculture sectors.
The CDC meeting was participated by ministers and concerned executive
secretaries including chief secretary Maj Rtd Javed Majid and additional
chief secretary development Captain Rtd M Yusuf.
The Dudyal tehsil headquarters hospital which was approved to be built back
in 1992 by the then Premier Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan would involve a sum of
Rs. 158.762 million. Its foundation stone was laid in 1995. It will have a
hundred bed capacity.
The CDC decided to construct refugees colonies in 12 big cities costing Rs.
199.964 million. A Project Director will be appointed to oversee the
construction work.
On the establishment of 21 women welfare centres a sum of Rs. 53.529 million
will be spent. These centres will impart technical skills to the female lot
to make them income earner for their families.
A forest conservation project to be initiated in the forest-rich Neelum
Valley is to cost Rs. 156.910 million. Liquified gas and GI sheets under
this programme will be provide to the Valley people as an alternate to
timber fuel.
At Urja, a wayside township in Bagh district, an operational vegetable and
meet market is to be built at a cost of Rs. 88.763 million.
In his brief address to the executives Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmed
Khan exhorted them to be practical.
The ground achievements must correspond to the general briefings. All
executives should update themselves with the hard results regarding
development projects relating to their respective departments.
Seasonal cycles should also be kept in mind so that maximum achievements are
made in the fields, he advised.●
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