PESHAWAR
Mayor Peshawar Haji Zubair Ali on Friday urged the business community to play its due role and extend its support to the city metropolitan government for the development of the provincial capital.
He said that with support of people and trade body Peshawar will be turned into a city of flowers, adding that a 25-members committee, comprising representatives from business community, health department, PESCO, and other relevant departments and agencies would be formed to prepare a comprehensive developmental plan for Peshawar beatification and resolving the longstanding problems of its dwellers and businessmen.
Haji Zubair Ali while interacting with a delegation of business community maintained that a team comprised of experts on traffic management had recently completed its survey about the traffic mess in Peshawar, adding that as soon as the report received from concerned team, an effective strategy would be devised to implement the recommendations of the report in consultation with stackholders including the traffic authority and provincial government.
He termed traffic management one of the major issues of Peshawar and assured that it would be resolved for once the report practical work initiated on it in the light of survey recommendations.
He announced that all shops will be formally registered with the city metropolitan government.
“A separate location in the provincial capital would be allocated for the transgender persons where the city government would provide them with the facilities of health, vocation center and other facilities,” he added and said that without public support and resolve development dream could be achieved.
To a question, Mayor Peshawar deplored the performance of the WWSP and demanded of the provincial government to give management control of the company under the city government. “WWSP has failed even CM Mahmood Khan has also termed its performance unsatisfactory,” he added.
He said that local government representatives for the first time held fruitful meetings with trade bodies and businessmen of the provincial government and initiated a process to make Peshawar a developed city par with modern cities of the developed countries.
