PPP leader questions ‘transferring’ CDLD funds to Nowshera, Haripur

TIMERGARA: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior vice-president and former member Provincial Assembly (MPA) Muhammad Zamin blamed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervez Khattak and Minister for Local Government and Rural Development Inayatullah Khan for transferring Community-Driven Local Development (CDLD) project’s funds to districts of Nowshera, Haripur and Buner.

Speaking at a news conference at the Timergara Press Club, the PPP former lawmaker said the CDLD project was launched in six districts of militancy-hit Malakand division in 2015 and the MoU of which was signed by the PPP Minister for Finance Humayun Khan during the previous government.

He said the European Union had provided 80 million euros to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under the project.

The PPP leader said that the Malakand division had suffered a lot due to militancy, military operations, flash floods and earthquakes. He added that the European Union decided to support the KP government for successful implementation of the community driven local development policy in Chitral, Lower Dir, Upper Dir, Malakand, Shangla and Swat districts.

He said the government was supposed to spend the EU funds in these districts on rehabilitation and reconstruction work till the end of 2018.

He added that the KP government recently included three more districts of Nowshera, Haripur and Buner in the CDLD policy. The PPP leader also alleged the social mobilisation role of the Sarhad Rural Support Programme (SRSP) was also abolished in the implementation of the policy.

He demanded the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and concerned authorities of the EU to spend the entire allocated amount in districts of Malakand division as per the MoU signed by the previous government.