Orakzai Agency : Eight development schemes completed

Schemes to safeguard local population and their land from floods, rehabilitate the basic infrastructure of the area.

PESHAWAR: To safeguard the local population and their land from floods and to rehabilitate the basic infrastructure of the area, the government has completed eight development schemes in the lower Orakzai Agency, a press release issued by the Fata Secretariat on Monday said.

The schemes include the construction of flood protection walls, street pavements and a short-term employment scheme in the Lower Orakzai Agency.

The press release stated that to protect the local population from floods in the future, eight protection walls have been completed in the Anjani village and Rang Darra village of the Lower Orakzai Agency.

Four galvanised iron flood protection walls, each 34 meters long, have been constructed in the Anjani village while four protection walls, 134 meters long, have been constructed in the Rang Darra village of the region.

These walls will protect 2,000 people and their lands from floods in the area.

Four street pavement schemes have also been completed in the Sra Khuna village, the Dubsana village, the Khanan Garhi village and in the Largi Tangi village of Lower Orakzai Agency, to improve the sanitation conditions of these areas.

Five streets, 1,219 meters long, in the Sra Khuna village, 1,296 meters long in the Dubsana village, 1,158 meters long in the Khanan Garhi village and 762 meters long, have been completed in the Largi Tangi village of the Agency.

The construction of retaining walls and drains were also completed as part of these schemes.

To rehabilitate the basic infrastructure of schools and health units in the area a short term employment scheme was initiated to provide job opportunities to the community members.

In this scheme, 54 schools and ten health units were rehabilitated and cleaned in the Lower Orakzai Agency.

The schemes also involve the provision of secure places for women to wait for transportation; fourteen waiting sheds have been constructed along with cemented sitting benches in seven places of Kurez, Town, Kadda bazzar, Tarangai, Panzari, Sarobi Garhi and Kalaya bazzar of the Lower Orakzai Agency.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 23^rd, 2010.