K-P police deployed across tribal districts

Apex committee reviews compensation, student quotas for tribal areas

PESHAWAR: Police have been deployed across the newly merged tribal districts while judges have also been posted in the tribal district with all relevant facilities.

This was disclosed during a meeting of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Apex Committee which met at the Governor House in Peshawar on Tuesday with Governor Shah Farman in the chair. K-P Chief Minister Mehmood Khan was also present in the meeting.

The committee discussed and reviewed the overall security situation in the province, particularly in the newly merged tribal districts (NMTDs).

The forum took up the special compensation package for goods lost in the Waziristan tribal districts as per a report prepared by a special committee. It was agreed to post an Additional Deputy Commissioners/Tehsildar/Naib Tehsildar and other dedicated staff to finalise the survey and verify the damage done to houses and shops at the earliest.

The committee also underlined the need to enhance economic activities in tribal districts and decided to set up industrial and processing zones for copper, chromate, nephrite, granite and other minerals.

As per a decision of the former prime minister, the forum also discussed an increase in quotas for students from the erstwhile federally administered tribal areas (Fata) in medical colleges and professional colleges outside the province.

Governor Farman directed the monitoring and evaluation teams to prepare monthly work plans and ensure better monitoring of developmental schemes and service delivery programmes in all tribal districts.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 16^th, 2019.