CM breaks ground on low-cost apartments
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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan on Friday performed the ground breaking ceremony of two high-rise residential, commercial buildings here at Warsak Road Peshawar.
These multi-story buildings will accommodate a total of 1,240 residential flats of different categories and other allied facilities to be completed at a total cost of Rs17.5 billion.
One high-rise building will be constructed at Warsak Road on more than five kanals of land which would have three commercial and 10 residential floors.
The other one will be constructed at Rehman Baba Complex on 79 kanals of land having facility of 10 residential floors.
Addressing a ceremony held in this regard, the chief minister felicitated the Provincial Minister for Housing and his entire team for initiating practical work on the construction of high-rise buildings.
He said that the K-P government, in line with the vision of PTI Chairman Imran Khan, was working for the wellbeing of the common man, adding that construction of high-rise buildings is aimed at providing residential facilities to the low-income classes.
Mahmood Khan said that the provincial government was going to launch the mega housing project of the province named New Peshawar Valley which would be the only housing society to be established under the land-sharing formula.
He said that government housing schemes were also being initiated on the available non-agricultural lands in other districts too.
He made it clear that the provincial government was not only working on housing projects but also taking visible steps to protect the agricultural land in the province.
Touching upon the current political situation in the country, the chief minister said that when the country was on the path of development and the people were realizing the positive change in their lives, just at that time a group of incompetent rulers had been imposed on the country which made life of the people miserable.
The chief minister said that two political parties ruled the country for 40 years; but they did nothing for the welfare of the people. Mahmood Khan expressed his concern that development projects of K-P have been excluded from this year’s PSDP and the “imported government” had also banned the transportation of wheat flour from Punjab to K-P.
Apart from this, free treatment facility for the people of the merged districts was also stopped by the federal government.
However, the CM said that the provincial government will continue to provide free treatment facility to the tribal people from its own funds.
The chief minister said that the PTI government gave the right to vote to overseas Pakistanis, but the “imported government” took away that right too.
He made it clear that Imran Khan was the only hope for the people and he will never disappoint the nation.
He further stated that the rulers are talking about going to the public, but they should think how would they face them.
The people of the entire country, including Punjab, made it clear that they will not accept anyone’s slavery.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 30th, 2022.