PESHAWAR
A high-level meeting of the Special Steering Committee constituted for Newly Merged Districts Affairs, was held here at Civil Secretariat Peshawar, under the chairmanship of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Caretaker Minister for Newly Merged Districts Affairs,Industries,Commerce and Technical Education, Dr. Aamer Abdullah on Tuesday.
During the meeting, the proposed new economic development plan, chalked out for the merged districts and matters regarding release of funds for the ongoing development projects were discussed.
Besides Additional Chief Secretary Planning and Development(P&D), Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah,members of the committee comprised by officials of 11 corps, representatives of other relevant agencies and officers of provincial departments participated in the meeting. On this occasion, ACS P&D department informed the forum about the new economic development plan proposed for the merged districts and gave a briefing regarding its importance and objectives for the sustainable development of the merged districts.
During the meeting, the forum also discussed the financial status and releases of funds regarding various ADP schemes and projects under the special development package “Accelerated Implementation Program”( AIP), executed by the government for the merged districts and took delebiration upon it’s prioritization in funds realeses issues.
On this occasion , the caretaker minister directed that in the development projects of the merged districts, the schemes that are due for completion and those projects that meet on objectives of the new proposed plan should be given priority in the release of funds. He directed that the concerned line departments should provide detailed reports regarding the physical progress of their development projects and their financial release status, while the details of other phases of these projects after PC.1, should also be uploaded on P&D system.
He directed that the line departments should make proper monitoring procedures of their development projects and also visit these areas to monitor them and submit evaluation reports of their projects in this regard.He directed in this regard,all the departments to complete the progress report of their important projects within a week time accordingly.
The caretaker minister also directed to include alongside approved and ongoing development projects,the new feasible and important projects and present them to international donor organizations for their attraction.
In this regard, the caretaker minister assigned the task to the concerned authorities for arranging a high level conference for donor agencies as well.
