PDWP approves 11 projects

PESHAWAR: The Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) on Thursday approved 11 developmental projects worth Rs9524.842 million in different sectors including Education, Sports and Tourism.

The Provincial Development Working Party meeting was held with the Additional Chief Secretary Atif Rehman in the chair, which was attended by Provincial Development Working Party members and the representatives of concerned departments, said a handout.

The forum considered 12 projects pertaining to different sectors including Elementary & Secondary Education, Sports & Tourism

and Multi-sectoral Development sectors for the uplift of the province.

Among the considered projects, 11 were approved with mutual consultation while one project was deferred due to inadequate design and was returned to the respective department for rectification.

The approved projects of Elementary & Secondary Education Sector included: development of play areas in primary schools of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, KP girls community schools project Phase-1 and 2, reconstruction of dilapidated primary, middle and higher schools on need basis in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Approved projects of Sports & Tourism sector are up-gradation of Peshawar Sport Complex, Qayyum Stadium establishment of sports complex at Karak, construction of key archaeological sites of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, holding of important tourism festivals in KP, a sustainable sports support programme for talented Sportspersons of the province, youth development package.

Approved project of multi-sectoral development sector is governance and policy reforms programme.