Uplift: Rs8 billion to be spent on Punjab’s tribal areas

26 basic health units are to be constructed in the tribal areas.


Our Correspondent April 27, 2015
Rs30 million had been allocated for development of water resources in Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur. DESIGN: CREATIVE COMMON

MULTAN: “The provincial government has approved Rs8 billion for development work in tribal areas on its borders with Sindh and Balochistan,” Punjab Tribal Area Development Director Tahir Khursheed said on Monday.

He said Rs30 million had been allocated for development of water resources in Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur.

He said Rs18.5 million had been allocated for installation of 100 MW solar plants in Rajanpur and Dera Ghazi Khan.



He said check posts of the Border Military Police would be upgraded. Khursheed said 26 basic health units and veterinary hospitals would be set up in Tribal Area of the Punjab. He said Rs11.8 million had been issued for 14 small tubewell schemes and repair of dykes.

Khursheed said 511 small solar plants would be distributed in six union councils of the tribal areas of the Punjab and Rs17.2 million rupees had been issued for this purpose.

He was addressing a Tribal Area Development Programme meeting.

He said tenders for repair and construction of roads in tribal areas had been sought. He said seven roads – four in Dera Ghazi Khan and three in Rajanpur - would be built over 143 kilometres. He said Rs1.7 billion would be spent on the project. He said in the second phase, a 47-kilometre long road would be constructed.

He said Rs100 million had been allocated for the distribution of 2,935 solar lights. He said of these, 1,510 had been distributed. He said the government hoped to complete these projects within three years. He said the provincial government had taken suggestions from all stakeholders before announcing these development projects.

“We have asked local tribal leaders to monitoring the projects and report their grievances,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 28th, 2015. 

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