MANSEHRA: The provincial government has approved Rs4 billion development funds for Mansehra district, said political adviser to the chief minister Zargul Khan.
“Though the PTI has no lawmaker from Mansehra, our government has earmarked Rs4 billion for development schemes in the district,” he told reporters.
MrZargul Khan said work on the Siren River Right Bank Canal project would begin soon and that the project would boost agricultural production in the district.
He said the government would soon notify Baffa-Pakhal as tehsil in line with the last year’s announcement of the chief minister.
“I will quit the government and even politics if the CM doesn’t notify Baffa-Pakhal as tehsil. However, I cannot suggest exactly when this will happen,” he said.
PTI district president Babar Saleem Swati, who was also in attendance, said the government was striving to address the causes of delay in the completion of New Balakot city housing project designed to settle the Oct 2005 earthquake survivors from Balakot and Garlat Red Zone.
He insisted local lawmakers and successive governments were to blame for delay in work on the project.
Opposition leader in Mansehra district council ShahidRafiq said his party, the PTI, had got a stay order against the bypassing of opposition parties during the execution of development schemes approved by the district council.
“The district nazim discriminated against councillors and deprived them of due share in the Rs500 million development funds,” he said.
