MANSEHRA: The provincial government has approved Rs4 billion development funds for Mansehra district, said political adviser to the chief minister Zargul Khan.
\n\u201cThough the PTI has no lawmaker from Mansehra, our government has earmarked Rs4 billion for development schemes in the district,\u201d he told reporters.
\nMrZargul 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.
\nHe said the government would soon notify Baffa-Pakhal as tehsil in line with the last year\u2019s announcement of the chief minister.
\n\u201cI will quit the government and even politics if the CM doesn\u2019t notify Baffa-Pakhal as tehsil. However, I cannot suggest exactly when this will happen,\u201d he said.
\nPTI 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.
\nHe insisted local lawmakers and successive governments were to blame for delay in work on the project.
\nOpposition 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.
\n\u201cThe district nazim discriminated against councillors and deprived them of due share in the Rs500 million development funds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MANSEHRA: The provincial government has approved Rs4 billion development funds for Mansehra district, said political adviser to the chief minister Zargul Khan. \u201cThough the PTI has no lawmaker from Mansehra, our government has earmarked Rs4 billion for development schemes in the district,\u201d he told reporters. MrZargul Khan said work on the Siren River Right Bank […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-peshawar"},"yoast_head":"\n