Land use plan approved for four districts
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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has principally approved the proposed district land use plans for Peshawar, Mardan, Charsadda, Nowshera, Swabi and Abbottabad and ordered finalizing proposals in consultation with the provincial administrative departments within one week time.
The proposed district land use plans are aimed at providing policy guidelines for establishing a planned hierarchy of settlements, systematic growth of major infrastructure and services and undertaking integrated and coherent development of urban and rural areas in the province by ensuring systematic utilization of land, its allocation, development and management.
Chairing the first meeting of the Provincial Land Use and Building Control Council held here on Wednesday, the chief minister made it clear that all the departments would have to implement the proposed district land use plan in its letter and spirit, adding that streamlining the utilization of land is the need of hour and we can no longer afford the haphazard and unsystematic use of land.
Provincial Ministers Taimur Saleem Jhagra, Ishtiaq Urmar, Faisal Amin Gandapur, Special Assistant to CM Abdul Karim, Additional Chief Secretary Shahab Ali Shah, Senior Member Board of Revenue Zakir Hussain Afridi, Principal Secretary to CM Amjad Ali Khan and other members of the council attended the meeting.
Briefing about the various aspects of the proposed district land use plan, it was revealed that the plans had been prepared in accordance with the physical location, climate, geological situation, hydrology and water resources, population and demography of the aforesaid districts.
Similarly, keeping in view the additional demand of infrastructure development and services for the next 20 years, viable parameters and framework have also been proposed for undertaking sustainable development programs.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 15th, 2022.