CM opens work on Peshawar facelift

Multiple construction and rehabilitation activities to be carried out under the project

PESHAWAR:

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has formally performed the ground breaking of three mega development projects in Peshawar under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cities Improvement Project (KPCIP) which would be completed at an estimated cost of Rs4 billion.

These projects include improvement and rehabilitation of water supply system, extension and improvement of Bagh-e-Naran Park and establishment of Besai Park in Hayatabad Peshawar.

A ceremony in this regard was held at Bagh-e-Naran Peshawar on Wednesday with the Chief Minister Mahmood Khan as the chief guest. Provincial Ministers Faisal Amin Gandapur, Taimur Saleem Jhagra, Ishtiaq Urmar, members of provincial assembly, commissioner Peshawar and high-ups of relevant provincial departments also attended the ceremony.

The chief minister laid the foundation stone of improvement and rehabilitation of water supply system in Peshawar which would be completed at an estimated cost of Rs2.8 billion.

Under the project, multiple construction and rehabilitation activities would be carried out including rehabilitation of existing overhead water reservoirs, construction of new water reservoirs, replacement of 155-km water distribution network.