PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has directed expansion of the \u2018Billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 to agricultural sector as well.
\nChairing a meeting on \u201cWater Resource Management, Climate Changes and Billion Tree Tsunami\u201d here, he directed the Forest and Agriculture departments to jointly use equipment and services for the project.
\nThe chief minister directed to grow firewood in different areas in addition to the Billion Tree Tsunami drive in order to preserve and conserve the natural forest, said a handout.
\nPervez Khattak also asked for air-dropping seeds in inaccessible and far-flung areas of the province. He also directed for scientific plantation and constant monitoring to get the desire results.
\nOrdering to outsource plantation schemes on need basis, he said that this project was also a source of earning for the jobless and it gave equal chances of participation to youth and women. He also directed to train the people through a mass drive for forestation.
\nPervez Khattak said that his government had made scientific management policy, which was being used as a launching pad for making the Billion Tree Tsunami drive a success story.
\n\u201cThe government was looking forward for a plantation lab in the province in order to ensure environment and soil-friendly plantation in different parts of the province,\u201d he added.Pervez Khattak said that the Billion Tree Tsunami was the fourth biggest drive in the world.
\nMeanwhile, chairing another meeting, Chief Minister asked the concerned authorities to ensure completion of the solarisation of tube-well programme of the KP government in accordance with the international standards with main focus on transparency and quality.
\nHe expressed these views while chairing a meeting on local government LG affairs and ADP 2015-16 of district government tank here at Chief Minister House on Tuesday. Provincial ministers Muhammad Atif Khan, Ali Amin Gandapur, MPA Mehmood Battani were present on the occasion.
\nChief Minister informed that Public Health Engineering Department has shortlisted some reputed firms for solarisation of tube wells in the province and directed the respective authorities to replicate the same exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has directed expansion of the \u2018Billion Tree Tsunami\u2019 to agricultural sector as well. Chairing a meeting on \u201cWater Resource Management, Climate Changes and Billion Tree Tsunami\u201d here, he directed the Forest and Agriculture departments to jointly use equipment and services for the project. The chief minister directed to grow firewood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n