CM approves initial plans for Peshawar beautification programme. PHOTO: FILE
The pre-feasibility study of Peshawar Uplift and Beautification Programme was approved after a high-level meeting held with Chief Minister (CM) Pervez Khattak at CM Secretariat on Saturday.
On the occasion, the participants were briefed about the programmes chalked out for the beautification and development of the provincial capital, stated an official dispatch. Widening of main roads on the model of Islamabad and Lahore and launching 26-kilometre long mono-trains and bus services under the proposed mass transit system have been approved, among other mega projects for development of the metropolis.
Similarly, a number of projects such as construction of roads, bridges, parks, walking tracks, multipurpose sports stadiums, supply of clean drinking water, drainage, streamlining traffic, plantation, and rehabilitation of cultural heritage of the city are in the pipeline. The programme also includes a number of measures aimed at security enhancement of the city and installation of security gates with sensors at all major entrances to Peshawar. Practical work will be started after the final feasibility report is completed within a couple of weeks, said the handout.
Khattak said the projects might cost trillions of rupees, but funds will be made available for it and, hence, scarcity of resources will not be a hurdle. The CM said Peshawar was always the ‘City of Flowers’, stressing its historical glory must be revived at all costs.
Focal Person of the Peshawar Uplift Programme, Coordinator Mega Projects and Adviser to CM Ziaullah Afridi, Adviser to CM on Investment and Economic Development Rafaqatullah Babar, Secretary Local Government Hifzur Rehman and senior officials of Peshawar Development Authority, Municipal Corporation, divisional and district administration were in attendance.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 16th, 2014.
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If only Money can be created by writing about it. All these projects will always be in "pipeline" and money would be in the process of being "arranged". All hot air and no substance! 26Km Mono-rail?
@Muhammad: Haters gonna hate
@Sikander, you have raised valid concerns. But PTI has already announced that funds would be given at village/town level after LB elections. With this each town of KPK would get its share of development.
Considering the lethargy which this KPK govt suffers from in protecting its own people these flowers would end up on the burial grounds unfortunately.
Naya Pakistan...
This is wonderful, but following Lahore or Islamabad model wouldn't really be wise. Lahore has been developed on the expense of rural Punjab. We wouldn't want a highly developed Peshawar, like Lahore, while other cities of KPK remain without even the basic needs. We have seen this in Punjab, where smaller cities are ignored while trillions are spent on Lahore alone.
For example, the city that I come from, Chishtian, would get sewerage and cleaning drinking water with 650 million rupees, which it is denied so far, and an iron fence on the either side of the Lahore canal was set up at a cost of 740million rupees.
All I am saying is that smaller cities and rural KPK should not be ignored on Peshawar's expense.