K-P governor green-lights Rs2b projects for Fata

Mainly educational and health facilities to be reconstructed and developed

PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) governor has approved different projects worth Rs2 billion as part of the ongoing efforts to rehabilitate the temporarily displaced persons (TDPs) of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and to reconstruct and develop infrastructure facilities there with a special focus on educational and health facilities.

K-P Governor Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, who also oversees the tribal areas, green-lighted the projects while presiding over the second meeting of the Fata Development Council at the Governor House on Tuesday. The states and frontier regions’ (Safron) federal secretary; secretaries of finance and social sectors departments of Fata Secretariat and the other concerned senior officials attended the meeting.



At the proposal of the council, the governor approved a project for establishment of a cadet college at Sara Rogha in North Waziristan Agency which will cost Rs.390.382 million. He also approved a scheme under which different roads in the agency will be black-topped at a cost of Rs359.50 million.

“The Sara Rogha Cadet College in North Waziristan Agency will prove a milestone in the promotion of education, which also will make great headway as far as Education Emergency initiatives in Fata is concerned,” Jhagra was quoted as saying in an official statement.

A special scheme costing Rs300 million was also approved by the council which is meant to rehabilitate and develop communication, irrigation, public health engineering, and agriculture related facilities in the Datta Khel tehsil of North Waziristan Agency.

The council also approved a plan to establish at Maidan in Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency a D-Type hospital which is expected to cost Rs240 million. The meeting also approved construction and black-topping of different roads in FR Tank and FR DI Khan under the Fata integrated programme which will cost Rs96.014 million.

The meeting also discussed the outcome of certain ongoing projects under the health sector in Fata and especially approved an integrated scheme not only to control malaria and TB but also to protect the respective people from all the other epidemic diseases. This scheme will cost a total Rs623.845 million.

Also presiding over the 35th meeting of the Cadet College Razmak’s board of governors, the governor earlier eulogised the role of the institution in promoting quality education and desired that it should continue its vigorous services towards development of the entire country.

He also expressed the determination not to allow any hurdle, as far as promotion of education in Fata is concerned.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 4^th, 2017.