Cabinet approves Rs2.5b Ramazan Package

2,800 sale points have been established across K-P

PESHAWAR:

The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Cabinet in its 68th meeting approved Rs2.552 billion subsidy under the Ramazan Package to ensure uninterrupted supply of edible items on subsidized rates during the holy month.

Around 2,800 sale points have been established across the province, which will be provided flour three times a day to avoid any shortage of this essential commodity. The 20 kg bag of flour will be available at these points at a subsidized rate of Rs800 instead of Rs1100. The subsidized flour will also be available in bags of 10 kg for the ease of consumers at a price of Rs400 per bag.

The meeting was chaired by Chief Minister Mahmood Khan and besides the cabinet members was also attended by the provincial chief secretary, senior member Board of Revenue and secretaries of various departments.

Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Information Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif while briefing media persons about the decisions of the cabinet said that the cabinet also decided to set up 123 Ramazan Facilitation Centres, 42 mobile utility stores, 83 sasta bazars and 96 Ramazan Dastarkhwans, which will be supervised by the monitoring units headed by the respective secretaries and deputy commissioners.

The provincial cabinet, he said, also approved granting the status of force as well as shuhada package to the field employees of Forest and Wild Life Department.

Under the shuhada package, the family of the martyred employees of Scale 3-16 will be given Rs3.3 million, Rs5.5 million to BS-17 employees, Rs9.9 million to BS-18 & 19 employees and Rs.11 million to BS-20 employees in case of the death in the line of duty.

However, the CM ordered a uniform package for all martyrs and a summary will be presented in the cabinet in future.

Barrister Saif further said that the cabinet also approved regularization of more than four thousand employees of as many as 26 projects of the Rescue-1122, in addition to okaying Tolling Policy for Highways.

The cabinet, he said, approved the reopening of de-radicalization centre Mashal in Malakand Division and a supplementary grant of Rs360 million was approved for it.

The cabinet also sanctioned Rs50 per bag of fertilizer for the kharif crops during the year 2022-23.

He went on to say that the meeting approved the transferring of eight kanal and 3 kanal 7 marla state land to the Police Department for establishing police stations in Loi Sam, Khar, Bajaur and tehsil headquarters Ambar, Mohmad district respectively.

Similarly, the cabinet also approved the transfer of land to Relief Department for the establishment of Rescue-1122 stations in three different districts of the province.

The provincial cabinet okayed the status of sub-division to tehsil Shabqadar, Charsadda and tehsil Baffa, Mansehra district.

The cabinet also sanctioned a supplementary grant of Rs700 million for Pak-Austria Institute of Applied Sciences & Technology Haripur.

The cabinet also approved converting the Swat University Campus in Shangla to University of Shangla and the building of Technical College will be transferred to university.

The provincial cabinet approved handing over various roads in the province to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Highways Authority.

The cabinet approved the upgradation of tehsil Tirah Bagh Maidan to the status of sub-division and creation of two new tehsils, Painda Cheena in the new sub-division Tirah and Fort Salop in the existing sub-division Bara, Khyber tribal district.

The cabinet reviewed the regularization case of project employees of TMA Khar, Bajaur in light of the orders of Peshawar High Court Mingora Branch / Darul Qaza, Swat and recommendations of the sub-committee constituted by the cabinet.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 30^th, 2022.